I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

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.

We all belong to the holiness of our eternal soul.

Luck and nature shapes our imagination.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

May it be written. May it be done.

I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.

In our society, unless something can be measured then it doesn't exist. This is especially true in the world of medicine.

Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.