While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.

I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.

You see this radiant Flower that sparkles magic.Like your eyes when I see them radiated magic.Marty B.M

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

This is America, not a banana republic.