The Cold War was a war, and we won it.
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
I don't like closed systems.
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. . . . But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.
The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.