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.

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.