Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

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.

A sweet fruit for a sweet fight.

Accept the pain cherish the joys resolve the regrets then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over I'd do it all the same."

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

There is no shame in black beauty.

Needs are the expression of life through us.

Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.