A Quote by Jamie Zawinski

[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.

Jamie Zawinski

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Jamie Zawinski
American - Scientist
Born: November 3, 1968

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

Bruce Eckel

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I kind of feel like curling combines this weird vision of people sliding down a lane, and it looks like it combines bowling and every bar game I've ever played. But I still don't understand what the hell it is.

Joe Buck

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

Quality combines people power and process power.

Subir Chowdhury

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

L Peter Deutsch

I believe in a company that combines service and product offerings which are a bit different from other industries.

Borje Ekholm

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

Edgar Ramirez

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

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Conor McGregor

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Lucy Grealy

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.

Konrad Lorenz

The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

Louis Sullivan

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