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.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

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

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

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.