In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

C++ is a pile of crap.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

Only failure makes us experts.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

I am not behold to any special interest, I've spent a lot of money on my campaign, I'll tell you. I write those checks. Nobody owns Trump.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.

If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.