I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

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.

Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.

Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.