Linus Torvalds Quotes

"My name is Linus, and I am your God."
-Linus Torvalds in Self-esteem quotes.

"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

"Given enoug eyeballs, all thugs are callow."
-Linus Torvalds

"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."
-Linus Torvalds in Intelligence quotes.

"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
-Linus Torvalds

"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."
-Linus Torvalds

"Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat."
-Linus Torvalds

"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
-Linus Torvalds