If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

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.

Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God

Courage is winning small battles with great honor.

Power is paradoxical.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Keep going and the Lord will help you.

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.