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

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

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.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.