Quotes by Linus Torvalds

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Talk is cheap. Show me the code. — Linus Torvalds
I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am — Linus Torvalds
No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. — Linus Torvalds
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. — Linus Torvalds
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. — Linus Torvalds
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and impr — Linus Torvalds
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it — Linus Torvalds
My name is Linus, and I am your God. — Linus Torvalds
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and bla — 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 se — Linus Torvalds
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't transla — Linus Torvalds
By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, — Linus Torvalds
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and — Linus Torvalds
To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more — Linus Torvalds
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going t — Linus Torvalds
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. — Linus Torvalds
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. — Linus Torvalds
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil M — Linus Torvalds