Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

C++ is a pile of crap.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

Only failure makes us experts.

You're only young once. That is all society can stand.

Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.