A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

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

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.

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.