Accidental stacks considered harmful.

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.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.

There is nothing you cannot do.