choice Quotes

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.