I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

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.

Is the hell we know better than a heaven we don't know?

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong.

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.

Needing nothing attracts everything.