No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
Free markets select for winning solutions.
The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9. 95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.
A great speech is literature.
When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.
I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.