Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

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.

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.

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.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Most of our life we pass by waiting for tomorrow, but not living for today.

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?

I prefer little hotpant-like shorts, but I wear thongs too.

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].