Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Unhappy failures need not apply.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

I have the coolest parents.

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song