Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

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 first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?

Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.

My dad wears girls' clothes - it's so funny. Sometimes I see him and I'm like, 'Nice shirt!,' because it's from my closet.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.