Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

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.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.

Once you were a starlet. Then you're a star. Can you be a starlet again?

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.