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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.