Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

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.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.