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

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.