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"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."

"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"

"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong."

"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."

"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."

"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
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"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."

"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."

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

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."

"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."

"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."

"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."
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