The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

Be open to surrendering all preconceived notions, well-thought-out plans and annual to-do lists.

...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...

You have a mother?" His mouth quirked with humor. "Yep, and a father too! Every kid normally has one of each to begin with. He was teasing me in an affectionate way...

Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

There was no time to think, I just hit it

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

I make film to make time pass.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.