Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

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.

He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth.

Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it’s still a little grimy.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

I had a deep experience of God's love for me.

You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.

By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

A rule should suit the purpose.