326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

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

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows.

So I’ve decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn’t really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous...

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 to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

Those that can, do. Those that can’t, complain.

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 see the difference.

I’m generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

Don’t hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don’t worry about timing.