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" Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. "

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" 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. "

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

" I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. "

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

" Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. "

" 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. "

" I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. "

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

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

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

" Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. "

" To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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