If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.

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.

Nourish the body, nourish the soul. Punish the body, punish the soul.

You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news? I'm the worst one.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.