One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

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.

Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside.

You have the power to choose compassion in each moment.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

While praying I passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!