It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaffBelieve a woman or an epitaphOr any other thing that’s falseBefore you trust in critics.

Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

I'm angry because homophobia is still a thing.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.