Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

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.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.