When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of me is going to be drawn to doing something new and also the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity.
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.
I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.
The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.