All Linus Torvalds Quotes
- I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. Been
- I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. Binary
- If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. Bad
- Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. Definitely
- No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. Called
- Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. Best
- Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. Communicate
- Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. Combine
- The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. All
- The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. Actually Customers
- What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. Attributes
- 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. Commercial
- I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples'… Advances
- People 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… Belonging
- The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that… Cyberspace
- I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy… Aggressiveness
- I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people… Actually Found
- I'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… Across
- In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have… Absolutely
- It'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… Always Found
- Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get… Abuse
- The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly… Absolutely
- There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of… Approach
- There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating… Capabilities
- To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be… Actively