It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.