I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

A right is not what someone gives you

After I went to college, I realized that no matter how much I loved sports, I was ready to have fun, and that was right when I started to sing.

Second place is just the first place loser.

I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.