The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

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.

Don't be so loyal to your mind

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

He was obviously on the wrong side of crazy.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?