Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.

We knew that they would probably go after someone.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.

Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

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.

I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

My favorite wines are Zinfandels.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

Once I had her hand I never wanted to let go of her.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.

There is only one way to avoid criticism do nothing say nothing and be nothing.

Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize who you had, what you lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

It’s helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Hatred is a cold fire and it gives no warmth.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama.

I want to show people that I am that good friend and the person that a lot of people actually come to confide in or even, just, to be around that good energy, because that's what I'm all about.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.