He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.
Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.
If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.