326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.