 Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. |
| I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. |
| We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. |
| 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'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. |
| Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. |
| Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. |
| The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. |
| 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. |
| The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe. |
| I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid. |
| Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. |
| 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. |
| I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. |
| We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. |
| 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. |
| Programmers can be lazy. |
| I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. |
| For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. |
