Larry Wall Quotes on Creativity
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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? :-)
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.
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/* And you'll never guess what the dog had */ /* in its mouth... */
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Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.