I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.