Big things Quote by Linus Torvalds

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the…

— Linus Torvalds

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got…

— Linus Torvalds

“Nobody “manages” the open source contributors.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Decentralized consensus technology will reach the mainstream when products are built that both empower consumers to take control of their own data and also…

— Nick Tomaino

If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you…

— Rasmus Lerdorf

For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.

— Olaf Carlson-Wee

“RCS was the first version control tool I used. When I was at Spyglass, we had a team of 50 or so developers across…

— Eric Sink

A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman.…

— Chris Larsen

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the…

— Steven Johnson

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

— Linus Torvalds

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so…

— Mitchell Baker

You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries.…

— James Gosling