Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

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.

The place was silent and - aware.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Life is about growing, but it's also about making peace with who you are.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.