Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.