It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

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.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.

Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.

Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.