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

There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

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

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.