If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

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.

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

First and foremost: Feed people.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.