326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did.

Whoever came up with “hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on ‘your keyboard is buggered’ mode” should be shot.

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.

Non-technical questions sometimes don’t have an answer at all.

Artists usually don’t make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob “correctly”, so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

Let’s put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let’s not go there. We don’t base our morality on law.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I’m going to live forever.

The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That’s my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.