One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he’s produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub. - Peter norvig / jwz

• If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
• Linux is only free if your time has no value. (1998)
• Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation. (2000)
• If you’re using Windows, go fuck yourself.
• Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.