My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

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?

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.

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.

We live only for the hope of love.

SHOCK ABSORBERSVeterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully

... You make me feel as if I am a bird soaring in the sky. When you are not with me, I am bound to the ground." He touched her soft cheek. "I want you to marry me, Ruby. Will you?

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.