Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.

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 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.

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

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.