Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

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.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

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

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.