I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

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.

Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

At the beginning, all roads seem endless; but they are not!

Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.