Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.

The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

Painting taught literature to describe.

I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.