The kernel is a harsh mistress. - Theo de Raadt

This is a software monopoly but at least it was written by people who care about security, so it's not like Microsoft's monopoly.

c++ is a pile of crap

Our solutions provide something that is 100% right, all the time. That is the idea. The cobbled together gunk never does [...] It's unfortunate the application-level people are all caught up in cobble, cobble, cobble and just never learn how to evolve.