Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.