Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

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.

Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.