Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

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.

The Secret Revealer is the Righteous God.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

I've given my phone number to the weirdest people. I get texts from people all the time.

I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever!