“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”

“You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.”