Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.