I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

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.

The Giver of Life enrages us, He intoxicates us here.No one is at His sideto be famous, to rule on Earth.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

You are as old as God and as young as the morning.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.