If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.