People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

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.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.