To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

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.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.

Sedona is beautiful, but your soul is even more beautiful.

It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive sports team nicknames, we will strike out.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

Bluh-huh-huh" Minho groaned, a shudder of repulsion, like he'd just stepped in a pile of klunk.

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.