Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

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