When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

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 action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

The greatest person to know in life is yourself. There’s no one who will treat you better.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans.