I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

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

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

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.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.