Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

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.

Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory.

Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.

Her family was counting on her—to be responsible, to get good grades, to follow the rules, to be the good example. And more important, she expected those things of herself.

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.

Be true to what matters most to your heart.

Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

I'm actually very active.