To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

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.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.

it's really make sense when it's does not make sense

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?