self-awareness Quotes

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'.

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.

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.

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.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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.

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

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

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