326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won’t end up like the Hurd people.

Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I’m telling you that the kernel is stable not because it’s a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.

I don’t expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I’m somewhere between geek and normal.

I’ve actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that’s because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you’re making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it’s not a clever thing to do.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I’m talking to journalists I just say “programmer” or something like that.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

This ‘users are idiots, and are confused by functionality’ mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.