I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

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

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

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

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.