"Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail."

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Source : "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

Jon Lech Johansen

#Engineering Quotes #Community Quotes #Failing Quotes

“The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.”
“For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.”

Source : Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global
“It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.”
“You get what you earn.”
“Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.”
“That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.24, Stanford University Press
“I want to sing because I want to sing.”
“If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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