People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.
I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.
I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.
I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
