I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.