Linus Torvalds Quotes

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, ...

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, ...

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another pe...

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know ...

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agre...

I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at...

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas ...

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positi...

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the pub...

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion...

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and s...

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

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