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.

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.'

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.