De Raadt Quotes

#1. C++ is a pile of crap.

Theo De Raadt

#2. I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

Theo De Raadt

#3. The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

Theo De Raadt

#4. Sometimes men want what they don't have because they don't have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want the share that wasn't theirs.

Helene Wecker

#5. Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Richard Bach

#6. See you on the other side.
-Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan

#7. When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

Ozzy Osbourne

#8. When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words "public relations".

Edward Bernays

#9. Only failure makes us experts.

Theo De Raadt

#10. I live life with a daring curiosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

Theo De Raadt

#12. What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

Theo De Raadt

#13. I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

Theo De Raadt

#14. Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

Theo De Raadt

#15. That all of God's men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

J. Vernon McGee

#16. I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. My mother had a habit of hanging onto - even treasuring - the foibles of my distant infantile state.

Alice Munro

#18. As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

Suzi Quatro

#19. Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

Theo De Raadt

#21. Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

Theo De Raadt

#22. Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

Oprah Winfrey