The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc -… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more.… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
