The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.