We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

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.

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound.

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.