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 don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

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.