Money Quotes by Linus Torvalds

9 Money quotes by Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds approaches money with the same pragmatic clarity he applies to code, offering straightforward thoughts that cut through hype. The concise collection reflects his belief that financial decisions should be as logical as software design.

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Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to…

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Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux…

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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

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In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux…

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One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera…

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The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in…

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While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really…

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So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble…

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Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have…

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I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

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I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler…

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I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do…

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Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important…

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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

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The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

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Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts…

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