A good messenger expects to get shot.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Portability should be the default.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

When you think it’s there it will be there. When you think it’s not there still it will be there.It is like a mirror which needs another mirror to see it. It is mind.

If you lose you're going to be fired and if you win you only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

Besides being a model, I'm a human and a woman.

I always wanted to be an actor.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.