Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

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

So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.