I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

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.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

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

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

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.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.