[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe in his mind he's doing the right thing.

In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to? just turn over everything you had? -Davy Dempsey-

I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.