Mark Jason Dominus Quotes

• I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Book, Library, Immortality

  44 Copy quote

• American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Forbidden, Stance

  6 Copy quote

• The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Names, Size, Computer

  4 Copy quote

• In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Years, People, Laughing

  The Perl Review Interview, April 7, 2005.

  6 Copy quote

• Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Heuristics, Fancy, Way

  "My Life With Spam". www.perl.com. February 9, 2000.

  66 Copy quote

• A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Mother, Children, Long

  "Boring Answers to Powell's Questions". blog.plover.com. October 19, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin