It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

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.

What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontón’s execution witnesses on January 7, 1916

Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

India is like Europe. This means there isone currency and numerous languages andcultures. And this is a 'Europe' made up ofvarious cultures.