There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

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.

Conscious parenting is not about being perfect, it's about being aware. Aware of what your kids need from you to reach more of their full potential.

Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made.

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates.

I am a totally public person.

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.