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Thinking Quotes by Larry Wall
- You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
- I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
- I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
- I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial 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.
- I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
- 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…
- I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
- So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head…
- My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
- That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
- And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within…
- Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
- But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
- Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
- Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
- Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
- Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
- Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad…
- The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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