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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
I have an ego the size of a small planet.
I don't see myself as a visionary at all.
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
Any program is only as good as it is useful.
And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
No problem is too big it can't be run away from
You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.
Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.
All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.
I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.
Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.
In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.
Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.
People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.
I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.