Theo de Raadt

“You are absolutely deluded, if you think that threads do anything to speed you up. They only slow you down.”

“Shut up and hack.”

“We are a bunch of volunteers, and we write what we want.”

“Making things simple and correct is a lot of work.”

“I think our code audit process is our most important contribution to the free software world.”

“If you want to have a secure system, you have to write it from the beginning to be secure.”

“It's not about being nice. It's about being right.”

“Find bugs, fix bugs, find bugs, fix bugs. That's what we do.”

“Bloat is the enemy.”

“A lot of the security flaws you see today are because of complexity. People can't see the whole picture.”

“In the OpenBSD project, we have a goal of being number one in the industry for security. Number one. Not number two.”

“Some people say that I am a grumpy bastard. I am the nicest guy you will ever meet. Because I will tell you the truth.”

“We've always had a policy of just 'do what's right', and we've been very successful with that.”

“We are not a democracy. We are a meritocracy.”

“Patches are welcome, but they better be good.”

“Free software is not about price. It's about freedom.”