I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.