My name is Linus, and I am your God.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.