In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.

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

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.