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If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.
— Linus Torvalds
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
— Linus Torvalds
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
— Linus Torvalds
I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
— Linus Torvalds
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
— Linus Torvalds
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
— Linus Torvalds
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
— Linus Torvalds
I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.
— Linus Torvalds
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
— Linus Torvalds
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
— Linus Torvalds
software is like sex : it's better when it's free..
— Linus Torvalds
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.
— Linus Torvalds
And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.
— Linus Torvalds
On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
— Linus Torvalds
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
— Linus Torvalds
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
— Linus Torvalds
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
— Linus Torvalds
I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
— Linus Torvalds
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
— Linus Torvalds
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.
— Linus Torvalds
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.
— Linus Torvalds
If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
— Linus Torvalds
I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters
— Linus Torvalds
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
— Linus Torvalds
Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
— Linus Torvalds
When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'
— Linus Torvalds
Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
— Linus Torvalds
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
— Linus Torvalds
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
— Linus Torvalds
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
— Linus Torvalds
Any program is only as good as it is useful.
— Linus Torvalds
If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.
— Linus Torvalds
You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
— Linus Torvalds
If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
— Linus Torvalds
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
— Linus Torvalds
And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
— Linus Torvalds
Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.
— Linus Torvalds
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
— Linus Torvalds
I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.
— Linus Torvalds
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.
— Linus Torvalds
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
— Linus Torvalds
I love making friends ... it's people I can't stand.
— Linus Torvalds
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
— Linus Torvalds
A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
— Linus Torvalds
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
— Linus Torvalds
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
— Linus Torvalds
Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
— Linus Torvalds
It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
— Linus Torvalds
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
— Linus Torvalds
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
— Linus Torvalds
The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12 and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.
— Linus Torvalds
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
— Linus Torvalds
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
— Linus Torvalds
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs
— Linus Torvalds
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
— Richard Stallman
We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
— Linus Torvalds
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
— Linus Torvalds
Today, I will offer free web hosting and developpement helps for projects under Sourceforge — Linus Torvalds
I don't see myself as a visionary at all.
— Linus Torvalds
Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
— Linus Torvalds
With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.
— Linus Torvalds
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
— Linus Torvalds
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
— Linus Torvalds
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
— Linus Torvalds
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
— Linus Torvalds
I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.
— Linus Torvalds
I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.
— Linus Torvalds
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
— Linus Torvalds
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.
— Linus Torvalds
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
— Linus Torvalds
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
— Linus Torvalds
Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.
— Linus Torvalds
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
— Linus Torvalds
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
— Linus Torvalds
What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
— Linus Torvalds
Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.
— Linus Torvalds
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
— Linus Torvalds
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
— Linus Torvalds
I have an ego the size of a small planet
— Linus Torvalds
No problem is too big it can't be run away from
— Linus Torvalds
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
— Linus Torvalds
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
— Linus Torvalds
It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
— Linus Torvalds
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
— Linus Torvalds
