Quote by Larry Wall
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. Its limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design. – Larry Wall

Other quotes by Larry Wall

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

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Death
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think its still coming to computer science. – Larry Wall

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architecture
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Leon Theremins original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. Its like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. – Robert Moog

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design

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. – Tadao Ando

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design

I look at each episode in two ways – from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint – this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels. – Douglas Wilson

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design

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. – Steven Chu

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design

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If theres specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I cant change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. – Kathryn Bigelow

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Sports and politics dont mix. – Eric Heiden

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The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. – Arthur Henderson

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