It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

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.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists.

I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.