Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

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.

Reality was once a dream that took flight.

Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.