“Okay, that's definitely enough hype.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
In the perl man page.
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“Hype. What a marvellous, misused word. If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius, it wasn't hype; if you hype it and it fails, then it's just a hype.”
Neil Bogart, quoted in Loose Talk: The Book of Quotes from the Pages of Rolling Stone Magazine, 1990.
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