I finally discovered that my life is more important than show business.
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.