I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

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.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.