You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

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.