You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Larry Wall
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This quote is a reminder that we cannot change the past. We can only learn from it and move on, moving forward. If we dwell on the past, we will be stuck there forever. We can’t change it, so instead of dwelling on the past, we must recognize the power of the present moment and focus on what we can do now to create a better tomorrow.

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  1. You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
  2. I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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  4. When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
  5. Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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