Nat Friedman Quotations

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

We're offloading a lot of the work to the hardware. The result is things look and feel a lot smoother.

It makes it clear to people what a virtual workspace is.