Linus TorvaldsDevelopers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.362Humor
Linus TorvaldsThere were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and … ▶351Humanity
Linus TorvaldsThe thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. ✨ FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Tor… ▶363Humanity
Linus TorvaldsIf you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. ✨ Mr Linux basks in the limelight. BBC World ClickOnline Interview, new… ▶363Time
Linus TorvaldsSo I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentall… ▶364Sadness
Linus TorvaldsOne of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies… ▶353HumanityThought
Linus TorvaldsPeople 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.353Humanity
Linus TorvaldsI often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what scien… ▶331HumanityThought
Linus TorvaldsI see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.342Humanity
Linus TorvaldsI don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. ✨ Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.353Thought
Linus TorvaldsA consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just … ▶375Life
Linus TorvaldsThe 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.354ReadingTime
Linus TorvaldsI am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.344Thought
Linus TorvaldsI do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. ✨ FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers. Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firs… ▶377Reflection
Linus TorvaldsIntelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.377Humor
Linus TorvaldsTo be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.378HumanityPoliticsTruth
Linus TorvaldsIt's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.312Reading
Linus TorvaldsIn my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. ✨ The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview. Interview with Hir… ▶378Humanity
Linus TorvaldsGiven enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.379Sadness
Linus TorvaldsFairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. ✨ Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.335Life
Linus TorvaldsSee, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. ✨ Linux newsgroup post, July 05, 1996.357Hope
Linus TorvaldsLet's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law. ✨ Mes… ▶314Politics
Linus TorvaldsNo-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.369Reflection
Linus TorvaldsI don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. ✨ Leader of the Free World by Gary Rivlin, www.wired.com. November 01, 2003.358Politics
Linus TorvaldsI 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. ✨ The Legacy Of Linus Torvalds: Lin… ▶358Thought
Linus TorvaldsYou won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.325Love
Linus TorvaldsI will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry ab… ▶304ReflectionTruth
Linus TorvaldsI have an ego the size of a small planet. ✨ Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists. Linux Weekly News, lwn.net. August 20, 2007.315Hope
Linus TorvaldsIt just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.271Humanity
Linus TorvaldsI've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the directi… ▶293Thought
