Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

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.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

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