The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.