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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. "

" 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. "

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

" Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming. "

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