Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

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.

Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition.

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

I don't want to understand Facebook.

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

Forget yourself and go to work.

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.