Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
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.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
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.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.
- Linus Torvalds Quote
When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free."
- Linus Torvalds Quote
