They said it


There is none. Get over it.

-- Scott McNealy on privacy

At this stage in my life, the thing that really turns me on is competence.

-- Billy Joel

Science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

-- Karl Marx

Certum est, quia impossibile. (It is certain, because it is impossible.)

--Tertullianus

What the hell is content? Nobody buys content. Real people pay money for music because it means something to them. Being a "content provider" is prostitution work that devalues our art and doesn't satisfy our spirits. Artistic expression has to be provocative. The problem with artists and the Internet: Once their art is reduced to content, they may never have the opportunity to retrieve their souls.

-- Courtney Love

Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. I'm talking about major label recording contracts.

-- Courtney Love

Linux means never having to delete your love mail.

-- Don Marti

Maturity is when you quit blaming other people for your problems.

-- Craig Burton

Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?

-- Bob (on Slashdot)

I'm still freaked out by all this. I just wrote a (bleeping) anthropology paper.

-- Eric Raymond

My hovercraft is full of eels.

-- Monty Python