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.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.