Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling

Kanan thumped his chest. “I’m a man with a mission.”“You’re an oaf with a delusion.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

Praise, or gratitude, is love or faith in action.