"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

[Hans Reiser] did not directly kill [his wife]... he was trying to explain why reiserfs is better than ext4 and her head exploded

Gemstone Law #1: You must survive fire, endure pressure, get chipped and rubbed the wrong way efore your true brilliance shines through.

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always hat accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidenceand due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We ill not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep inour history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended rom fearful men -- not from men who feared to write, to speak, toassociate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular."

"The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success."

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.