He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm like, Alright. You're comfortable. It was like we knew each other for four or five years, even though we had never met.

~ Peter Seibel

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Zawinski: Sometimes. I end up doing all the sysadmin crap, which I can't stand-I've never liked it. I enjoy working on XScreenSaver because in some ways screen savers-the actual display modes rather than the XScreenSaver framework-are the perfect program because they almost always start from scratch and they do something pretty and there's never a version 2.0. There's very rarely a bug in a screen saver. It crashes-oh, there's a divide-by-zero and you fix that.

~ Peter Seibel

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Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD's Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun in that it starts somewhat simple and you're like, Yeah, yeah, I know what a closure is. And then it just continues to fuck with your head. By the end of the book, you're just blown away.

~ Peter Seibel

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