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

People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.

A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.