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"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."
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"We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards."
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"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."
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"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."
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"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."
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"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
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"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
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"I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design."
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"Design is people."
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"If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq."
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"Accessible design is good design."
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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 still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
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"The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems."
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"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."
Design

"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
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"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."
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"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."
Fun

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."
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"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."
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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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