The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

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.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1, 000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE

Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.

God, let me remember all good losers.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.