Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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.

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

He grinned at me and whispered, “I’m going to kiss you now. It’ll be a big one, so don’t hit me.

I think it's better to have ideas.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

These are terrible people in ISIS, not masterminds.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion.

Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you’re dating Robert Pattinson, you’re screwed.