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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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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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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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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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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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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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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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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.
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