"Part of language design is perturbing the proposed……" — Larry Wall
"Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future."
More Design Quotes
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and… — Lance Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks