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"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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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"Everybody is doing the same old thing."
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"To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since."
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"I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old."
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"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."
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"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
Old

"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
Compromise

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

"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
Running

"Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code."
Career

"Hubris itself will not let you be an artist."
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"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."
Money

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."
Language

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