Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

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.

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.

Positive thoughts emanate when we are in a sate of joy and negative thoughts come when we are in a state of sorrow.

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

​Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.