24 Quotes by Peter Fenton

There's a key difference between my worst picture and the worst picture.

But even just out there in the world, people – they- they stare. They look at two guys, when they hold hands. Or when they kiss. Gay guys are all – big and they're loud. And artsy and – I don't want any of that. I want a normal life that I built on my own. Not because of my dad. Not because of my .. heart. I just want to be left alone. (Wipes a tear away.) I wish there was a way to be with a guy, but... be straight.

What's the point of pushing a person away just because he's gay? You're already in Hell with him. Why would you push anyone away? Obviously, you've been wrong about something!

There's just no way of quantifying, say, you're "more" Christian than me because with self-applied labels like "Christian" or "Righteous" or "Sexy", it just means whatever the person wants it to mean.

Equality and progress literally can't happen on systemic levels if we say all the right things but don't mean them, wouldn't you say?

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.

Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.