But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

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.

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.

This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.