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

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.

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.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad or angry?

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

Success begets more in television.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.