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The Unix room still exists, and it may be the greatest cultural reason for the success of Unix as a technology.

— Rob Pike Rob Pike (2004)

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Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

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Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.

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Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

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Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods. I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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