Linus Torvalds Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.”

“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.”

“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.'”

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

“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 think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.”

“I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.”

“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.”

“I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.”