If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

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.

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

Slowly you become your own man.

We are built to worship.

And this is the beginning of the end.

I'm going to fight as hard as I can to make sure people have the futures that they deserve here in America.

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.