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I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up...

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

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Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

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...

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

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.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

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

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.'

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