Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.