Linus Torvalds Quotes:
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
Linus Torvalds
Any program is only as good as it is useful.
Linus Torvalds
Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.
Linus Torvalds
I actually think that I’m a rather optimistic and happy person; it’s just that I’m not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
Linus Torvalds
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
Linus Torvalds
I don’t actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don’t throw their panties at me. I’m a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.
Linus Torvalds
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I don’t have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I’m doing.
Linus Torvalds
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I don’t see myself as a visionary at all.
Linus Torvalds
I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
Linus Torvalds
I like to think that I’ve been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
Linus Torvalds
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples’ ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn’t do.
Linus Torvalds
I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
Linus Torvalds
I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.
Linus Torvalds
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or ‘big thinker.’ I don’t have any lofty goals.
Linus Torvalds
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It’s the right way to do things.
Linus Torvalds
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
Linus Torvalds
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room – by far – should be the occasional purring of the cat.
Linus Torvalds
I’d much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it’s right and not talking to the other.
Linus Torvalds
If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
Linus Torvalds
I’m a technical manager, but I don’t have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
Linus Torvalds
I’m generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Linus Torvalds
I’m interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn’t started as any kind of rebellion against the ‘evil Microsoft empire.’
Linus Torvalds
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.
Linus Torvalds
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