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" Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. "

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

" The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal. "

" 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. "

" Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. "

" I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. "

" The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. "

" See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. "

" The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is. "

" I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. "

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

" Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. "

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

" I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. "

" I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. "

" There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems. "

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

" I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. "

" You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. "

" I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job. "

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

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

" I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. "

" Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. "

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

" The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. "

" I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. "

" Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. "