I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?