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

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

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

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

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.