The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

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.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

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.

I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.