The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.

One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level; some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.