I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

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

I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.

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've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.