A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

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

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.