I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

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.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

If I finish tomorrow and look back on the past years, I' d say, 'that wasn't bad'.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

I would kiss you anyway, but I have a feeling that if I tried– (Rafael) I’d kick you in the nuts and tear your ear off. (Celena) That would hurt. (Rafael) That’s the idea. (Celena)

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.