Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs….

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through ….

I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card..

These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't ….

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater..

I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Becau….

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can..

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today,….

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need ….

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out..

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others..

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something ….

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that..

Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school..

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more..

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works..

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't ….

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work fo….

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy..

Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted t….

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?.