Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

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.

You got to be careful of what comes and leave your mind and how often they do both. Whatever enters your mind has brought a new brand of you and whatever exits is going to manifest that brand.

Why is it, that no matter how busy we are, we still find time to worry?

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

The world changes when there's music in it.