If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail".

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

real beauty is never vain.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!