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

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

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

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

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

I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

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 to do, regardless.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

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 necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

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

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

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, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

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.

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 as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

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

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

I'm done losing weight, I feel great, and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and having boobs and hips. It's hot. I don't ever want to be size zero.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The Word of God is a Person. When you read it, do you see words or do you see Him?

I am now, and will always be me. But when it comes time to step out onto that field, me gets a little more dedicated, a little more serious, and nobody stands in my way.

I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

Words are loaded pistols.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

What we need to do is to inspire businessmen and businesswomen to open up small businesses and medium businesses, and have big businesses come and relocate to New Jersey.

When I was a kid, I'd read about celebrities who didn't want to talk to their fans after a show. I told myself, 'That's terrible, and I would never do that.'

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I love being by myself.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.