I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

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.

To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products.

This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.