We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Programmers can be lazy.
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.
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.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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 think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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.
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
