Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

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

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.

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