Quotes from Linus Torvalds

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

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

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

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.

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

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

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.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

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

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

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 the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'