Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

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.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Everyone needs beauty. Even beautiful people"From "Central Park Song

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.