"A hacker is someone who enjoys playful clevernessâ€”not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean â€œsecurity breaker.â€"

-- Richard Stallman

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“Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.”
“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
“If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.”
“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Source : Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.
“I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.”
“I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.”
“I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.”
“Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.”

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