"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."

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Source : Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? (Usenet article), groups.google.com. March 23, 2000.

Erik Naggum

#Real Quotes #Together Quotes #Tape Quotes

“By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.”
“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”
“Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.”
“There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.”
“It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.”
“Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.”
“The constant exercise of our faith by lofty thinking, prayer, devotion, and acts of righteousness is just as essential to spiritual health as physical exercise is to the health of the body. Like all priceless things, faith, if lost, is hard to regain. Eternal vigilance is the price of our faith. In order to retain our faith we must keep ourselves in tune with our Heavenly Father by living in accordance with the principles and ordinances of the gospel.”
“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I Âalways have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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