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"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."
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"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."

"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."

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"Novelist by day, screenwriter by night."

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
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"Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive."

"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."

"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."

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"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."

"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it."
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