UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

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

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.