“I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster ...” — Brian Behlendorf Quote

“I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.”

“Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.”

“Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.”

“There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.”

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”

“The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.”