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" A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one. "

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" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

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" I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project. "

" Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. "

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

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

" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "

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

" In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My name is Linus, and I am your God. "

" I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. "

" Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. "

Linus Torvalds

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" Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

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

" 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. "

" In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. "

" Any program is only as good as it is useful. "

" I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. "

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

" The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. "

" In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. "

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