I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.