I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

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.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.