Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.