Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.