 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. |
| To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. |
| The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. |
| I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway. |
| The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. |
| Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. |
| 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. |
| Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious. |
| I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. |
| I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. |
| I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. |
