Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.