I don't like closed systems.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

Truth in, untruth out. Seek thus, within-without

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.