I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

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

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.