Theo de Raadt Quotes

This is a software monopoly but at least it was written by people who care about security, so it's not like Microsoft's monopoly.

It's the little things that make Freedom become Not Freedom.

The world doesn't live off jam and fancy perfumes - it lives off bread and meat and potatoes. Nothing changes. All the big fancy stuff is sloppy stuff that crashes. I don't need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. That's not as pretty, and just as hard.

Quite frankly, SSE's alignment requirement is the most utterly retarded idea since eating your own shit.

The kernel is a harsh mistress.

Don't tell anybody I said that.

Buttons are for idiots.

Hystory of revisions (may be related to the date when they were said): http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/Attic/theo.c

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.

35 commits an hour? That's pathetic!

Our solutions provide something that is 100% right, all the time. That is the idea. The cobbled together gunk never does [...] It's unfortunate the application-level people are all caught up in cobble, cobble, cobble and just never learn how to evolve.

You'd be safer using Windows than the code which was just deleted.

c++ is a pile of crap

It's terrible, everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'

You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.