Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

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.

Words don't mean, people mean.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.