If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

Justification of failure is the most powerful mechanism adopted by the mind to avoid the reflection of Self Failure

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.