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" I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places. "

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" I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area. "

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

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

" What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out. "

" I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. "

" I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. "

" I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. "

" I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. "

" I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself. "

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

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

" No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. "

" I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. "

" 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. "

" Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. "

" If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. "

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