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

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

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

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.