That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

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

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.