The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

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.

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.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

She hated seeing monsters smile. Monsters should growl and snarl and be done with the pretenses.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

I [have] love for others and love for life.

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.