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 am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.