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

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.

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

I don't like closed systems.

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.

So, ” said Zia, “you’re gonna eat your way through the whole universe, top to bottom. And then what?

When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn't want to be in hell any more.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.