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

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.