You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

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 definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.