Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

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.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

Humiliating for my freedom ...... will not never be been something that gets used to it!

We contract with them.”“And demons –”“Are one of those group.”“Like, from Hell?”“Sometimes. And sometimes from Park Avenue.

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

It's important to look for mentors all around you.

I've always been into sports and being physical.