I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

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.

Behind every successful man, is a Woman breathing through her mouth

Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.