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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

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"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."

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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."

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"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."

Time

"There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6."

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"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."

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"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."

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

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"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."

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"I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age."

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"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."

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

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