Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

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.

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.

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.

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.