All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

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.

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