What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

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.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.

Human feelings are queer things -- I am much happier -- black-leading the stove's -- making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be living like a fine lady anywhere else.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

I wish my name was Tom Kite.

I never think, Oh, I'm so beautiful. To me, feeling happy is more important.