Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

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.

But you’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Ian Rush unleashed his left foot and it hit the back of the net

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

I never make predictions and I never will.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real.