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"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
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"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"

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"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"

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"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."

"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."

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"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."
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