Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.