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

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

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

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.