Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

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.

Taming attachment, does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding

No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.

The only thing man has never done is what he hasn't thought about.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

Religion has always persecuted science.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

School gets in the way of my learning.