Norwegian Quotes

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

I don't like closed systems.

I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.

I came into the world at the right time.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

The devil is compromise.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'