I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

Where there is no integrity, there is no unity.

I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it be his life ever so wicked for prayer is the way to amend it and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

When I teach seminars, I tell people, Your stuff has to look like something thats out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.