This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

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.

Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.