[In response to ] Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say. - Linus Torvalds

Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :)

People say that you should not micro-optimize; but, if what you love is micro-optimization, that's what you should do.

If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.