Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

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.

Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.

Sometimes you meet people who teach you what kind of person you do not want to be in your life.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

A thing is important if anyone think it important.