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.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

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