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"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
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"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."

"I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off."

"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."

"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."

"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."

"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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