I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

I don't like closed systems.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

You’re as strong as your resolutions!

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

Some of these people make my skin crawl.

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.