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.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

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.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.