Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

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.

I'm the boss. I gotta pretend to worry.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something.

We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.