Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

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.

They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna

Compassion is an act of love. You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

It's easier to promote things, if you have fans.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.