Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well.

If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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*'.

There is nothing less inspiring and more unhelpful to the citizens of Oregon than the sound of one-hand clapping. I need your hand to join my hand.

Since whatever we do has to be part of a team, part of a community, we have to attempt to bring together those who have the same conviction, see the same thing…

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.