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 thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

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.

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.