An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

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.

Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.