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

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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

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

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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

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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.

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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

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