Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

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.

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