Quotes By Larry Wall
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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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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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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.
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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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