Only failure makes us experts.

- Theo De Raadt

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

- Theo De Raadt

C++ is a pile of crap.

- Theo De Raadt

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening els…

- Theo De Raadt

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

- Theo De Raadt

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

- Theo De Raadt

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in ne…

- Theo De Raadt

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

- Theo De Raadt

So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anythin…

- Theo De Raadt