There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

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.

Management works in the system

I learn by going where I have to go.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

I now go beyond other people's fears and limitations. I create my life.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

I’d rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I’m getting into and what it’s going to be like for our life together.