Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

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.

Be wary of the praise of men

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.