OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

Your smile draws people to you as it simultaneously brings out the best in you both.

When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

We dream every night, all the time.