326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

"Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures."

"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."

"I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light."

"On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle."

"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."

"A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with."

"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there."

"If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system."

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

"Avoiding complexity reduces bugs."