F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.