Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

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.

One day she asked me: "Is this love?" I said: "If this is not love, then love is nothing!

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

We all strive to find something unique and special that we are passionate about that separates us from the rest.

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.