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

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

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

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

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

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.