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

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

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.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

To believe that there are difficult or unreachable things, doesn't change the nature of those things, only our position towards them

Lancelot and Guinevere – they looked like two flowers, bright enough to turn to each other for sunlight.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.

I've always been into leopard print. No joke, when I was 14 years old I wanted my entire room to be covered in it.

Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.