The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

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.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.