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" I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names. "

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" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

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

Linus Torvalds

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" In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. "

" I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job. "

" When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver. "

" 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. "

" 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 try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. "

" 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.' "

" You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. "

" By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them. "

Linus Torvalds

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Know

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

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

" 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. "

" If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. "

" 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

People

Software

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. "

" I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. "

Linus Torvalds

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" 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. "

" Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. "

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

" 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. "