I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

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

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.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

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

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.