Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?