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" Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. "

" For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. "

" Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. "

" I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. "

" If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious. "

" If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't. "

" I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off. "

" I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. "

" I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. "

" I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway. "

" I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid. "

" I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. "

Computer Science

" I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. "

" I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. "

" One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. "

" Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. "

" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "

" Programmers can be lazy. "

" Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. "

" Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place. "

" Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. "

" The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. "

" The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. "

" There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6. "

" The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. "

" The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe. "

" To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. "

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