Are you sure? There is good evidence he strongly prefers gc's. Consider almost all insects; consider dung beetles specifically. Consider super novas, gravity and accretion disks. Consider Disney and the Circle of Life. It's pretty clear he views automated recycling as a general architectural approach. 

A large benefit of a gc is it disassociates responsibility for cleanup from the creator of the object. Now imagine the opposite: after you died, you were responsible for disassembling yourself for use by others to create themselves (think "Soylent Green, The Next Generation"). And if you didn't do it, or you didn't do it properly, the world would eventually overcrowd and explode, leaving a core dump in space. Nice.

Of course, he'd give himself a switch to turn off the gc when he really needed to. 

John