I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

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.

For a life where diamonds really are forever

I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.