If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

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.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.