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.

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.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

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

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.