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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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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."

"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."

"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."

"Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State."
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"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."

"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."

"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."

"Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive."

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
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