[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

C++ is a pile of crap.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

Only failure makes us experts.

My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

I always say the beauty is in the mix.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.