Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out … - Erik Naggum

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I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.

Erik Naggum

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

Busy, Europe, Fighting, Revolution, Rights, Spell

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It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

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it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

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If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your concern, as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.

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Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc. , just because he wants speed.

Code, Errors, Etc, Intractable, Thinking, Viruses

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

Inherit, Kept, Real, Remove, Tape, Together

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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

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All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

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Ladyhawke

I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.

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Patrick Ness

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men. . . re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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