326 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

"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."

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

"I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'"

"Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'."

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

"Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do"

"Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer."

"The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts."

"Any program is only as good as it is useful."

"When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for."