Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.