[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

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.

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

All truly toxic thoughts are expelled while moving. Gotta move to stay alive.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.