Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

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.

Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.

Men must try and try again.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.

The best KISS concert I've ever been to was…my wedding.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.