Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

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.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Because if works doesn't mean that it's right, once can be successfully wrong~Dad to his Son...(Psalms 37:7)

Never say: "Who cares?!" Because there's always someone that cares. You.

You don’t achieve success, you attract success.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.