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

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

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

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.