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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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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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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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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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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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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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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.
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