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 .

Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

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.

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.