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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

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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.

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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: March 10th, 1949

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