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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Perl will always provide the null.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.
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*** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'.\nif /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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