It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

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

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.