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

» Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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

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

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

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

» 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.

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

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

» 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.

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

» We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

» We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

» 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.

» 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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