Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

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

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.