326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.