And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

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.

Freedom from sin is real

The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has achieved nothing.

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.