Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.