I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

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 was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.