self-awareness Quotes

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'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 do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

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.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

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

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

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

Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.