The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

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.

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

Let authenticity ignite your brilliance and dignify your craft.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.