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Linus Torvalds Quotes


In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

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

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

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 born.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

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

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

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

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 I can depend on in return.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

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

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

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