To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

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

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

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

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.