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I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
— Linus Torvalds
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
— Linus Torvalds
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
— 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
Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.
— 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
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
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
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
Today, I will offer free web hosting and developpement helps for projects under Sourceforge — Linus Torvalds
If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
— Linus Torvalds
The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.
— Linus Torvalds
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
— Linus Torvalds
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
— Linus Torvalds
We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
— 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
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
— Linus Torvalds
I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.
— 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
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
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
— Linus Torvalds
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
— 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
