I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.