One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

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.

In suffering, we resurrect our souls.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

I really don't care that I'm ranked.