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

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" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day. "

" It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring. "

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

" 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 very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. "

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

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

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

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

" What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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