326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds
"Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made."
"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..."
"Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed."
"I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease."
"I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues."
"I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before."
"The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong."
"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."