A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.