Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.