"[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript."

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Source : Usenet article "Perl and XEmacs", groups.google.com. August 16, 1997.

Jamie Zawinski

#Different Quotes #Aspect Quotes #Worst Quotes

“I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.”
“What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV,”
“I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with”
“Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.”
“Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.”
“The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.”
“Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.”
“As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.”

Source : "Tippi Hedren Reveals a Darker Side of Hitch in ‘The Girl’". Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. October 15, 2012.

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