Even the White House has a press agent.

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.

He regretted nothing. Not the way she’d felt in his arms and not the way he’d felt in hers.

The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.