Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.