Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

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

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

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

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

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.