I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

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 .