It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

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.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.