Theo de Raadt Quotes

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

I think a primary always makes the other candidate a better candidate because you're battle-tested and you have to think in ways that other people are thinking in addition to your own vision, how to incorporate some fresher, newer thinking into all of that.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.

Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.

You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.