Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
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… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux… — 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… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100… — 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'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error… — 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
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious… — 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… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera… — 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
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