In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

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.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.