Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

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.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

You stick to the script, the script is Bible.