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.

I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

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

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.