“software is like sex : it's better when it's free..”

“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

“Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.”

“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.”

“Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.”

“Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.”