The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.