If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

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 more you give of yourself, the more you find yourself.

In the darkness, fear my light.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.