The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.

Even things in a book-case change if they are alive

Those focused on the future don't complain about their past

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Three things it would be extremely difficult to play a show without: makeup, my vocal cords and pants.

sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.

When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.