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" Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. "

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" I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. "

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

" I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. "

" I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area. "

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

" Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. "

" 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. "

" Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. "

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

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

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

" In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself. "

" I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself. "

" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "

" 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 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. "

" That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. "

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

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

" I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. "

" 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. "

" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "

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

" I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. "

" 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. "

" Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. "