Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

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.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from