People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

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.

Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept.

I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

I don't have one regret.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

When you’re in love you’ll do anything, I’d go to the end of the world.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.