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"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."
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"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."
"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."
"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
"I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once."
"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."
"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
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