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

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.