The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
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.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!
I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
