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.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

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

Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.

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

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.