Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

I am not fake, I am just to good to be true :-)

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

Contemporary art hates you.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.