Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

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.

This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent . . . he's not rich enough to be a Republican.

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.