Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

Your passion is your connection to God.

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—" “Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.