Canadian - Businessman | September 27, 1954 -
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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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'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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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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