What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

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'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.