- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
- Laziness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
- Hubris
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
- Inventions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Programmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programmers can be lazy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020