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Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.