I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

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.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?