I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

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.

I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.