Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.