Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

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.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

One thing about dead people, they're all the same.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.