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

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" In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. "

" 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 with something that is pretty balanced across the board. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' "

" 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.' "

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

" People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. "

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

" 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 think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. "

" I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. "

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

" 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. "

" In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. "

" 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. "