There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

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.

Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.

Pain is not there to hurt you, but it is there to make you more aware and alert.

Any fool would not be braveWho takes no heed of this verseNo heroic deed or action saveAny man from Finndragon’s curse

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

The sad truth is, they should never trust me.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

Numbers rule the universe.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.