Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. – Khalil Gibran
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. – Christopher Lasch
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux thats the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I dont have to run your OS, and you dont have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! – Jamie Zawinski