Authority Quote by Linus Torvalds

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

— Ellen Ullman

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

— Linus Torvalds

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can…

— Steve Wozniak

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

— Steve Ballmer

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

— Nicholas Negroponte

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

— Linus Torvalds

I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most…

— Linus Torvalds

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

— Linus Torvalds

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

— Scott Adams

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

— Linus Torvalds

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell…

— Linus Torvalds

“Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux development community. When eager programmers would ask him,…

— Dan Woods