Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

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.

The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

God sends the cold according to the coat.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why