Information wants to be useful.

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.

Tears never reached you anywhere you had to go.

the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.