With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

A life without books is like body without a soul.

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.

Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.