Linus Torvalds Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.”

“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 thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.”

“Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.”

“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.”

“I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.”

“What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.”

“There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.”

“An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.”

“Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.”