We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.