You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top.

I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

The heart feels, the head compares.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.