True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Information wants to be useful.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.