Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

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