Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

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.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

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

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.