326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds
"I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming."
"Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do."
"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."
"I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene."
"To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together."
"I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later."
"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this."