ideas Quotes

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.