The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.