Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.