I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

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.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.

The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.