Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.