Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

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

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

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

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.