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

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

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.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness

I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

It is a high for me. It is my biggest and most satisfying deal.

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.