The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.