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" Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. "
Death
Club
Doing
" For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. "
Me
Relationship
Love-Hate
" Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. "
Itself
You
Artist
" I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company. "
Company
Wants
Run
" If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious. "
Too
Have Fun
Fun
" 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. "
You
Pay
Money
" 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. "
Want
Time
Off
" I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. "
Never
Everything
Want
" I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. "
Worn
Running
Almost
" I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway. "
Anyway
Time
Watch
" I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid. "
Smart
Realize
Enough
" I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. "
Science
Age
Computer Science
" I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. "
More
Best
Free
" I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. "
Think
Software
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. "
Way
Think
Philosophy
" 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. "
History
Positive
Technology
" Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. "
Day
Spend
Write
" 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. "
People
Rejection
Basic
" 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. "
Complicated
Language
You
" 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. "
Think
Architecture
Music
" Programmers can be lazy. "
Programmers
Lazy
" Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. "
Write
Real
Language
" 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. "
Place
First
Anything
" Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. "
Good
Art
Artist
" The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. "
Nutrition
Light
Well
" The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. "
Cultural
Really
Problems
" 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. "
Right
Schedule
Take
" The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. "
Hubris
Chief
Three
" The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe. "
Become
Universe
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. "
You
Work
Serve
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