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

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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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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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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when theres a single numeric average. But if its a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and thats crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. – Jaron Lanier

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It was always my goal to up the ante on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this. – Michael Graves

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. – Henry David Thoreau

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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. – Marilyn French

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The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years. – Tom Coburn

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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. – William Shakespeare

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The most important loan to pay is your student loan. Its more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases. – Suze Orman

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou, PBS, 1988 March 28th

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