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 .

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.