Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

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.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

I've been training so long, its second nature to push myself to the limit.