There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

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.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Nothing gives a sensation better than a beer! Nothing builds a relation better than a beer!

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

Are you Evelyn Green?” “Sort of. Mostly. I mean, legally. Again, sort of.

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.