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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."

Larry Wall on Design

More quotes about Design

  • "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

    Steve Jobs on Design

  • "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

    Walt Disney on Design

  • "The artist in me cries out for design."

    Robert Frost on Design

  • "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

  • "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

    Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Larry Wall

  • "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."

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

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "For me, writing is a love-hate relationship."

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