However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

People can tell what's in beer, eh? Like my brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like.

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.

What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.