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"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
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"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."

"But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days."

"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."

"You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result."

"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."

"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."

"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."
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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."

"There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6."

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