I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...]. - Linus Torvalds

I was 21 at the time, so I was young, but I had already programmed for half my life, basically. And every project before that had been completely personal and it was a revelation when people just started commenting, started giving feedback on your code. And even before they started giving code back, that was, I think, one of the big moments where I said, "I love other people!" Don't get me wrong -- I'm actually not a people person.

I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").

the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that <nowiki>[diversity]</nowiki> stuff is just details and not really important.