I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.