The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

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.

True kindness ennobles the giver

I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent.

...the dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

If we could manage any sort of trust again... Well. That would make me happier than you can imagine