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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

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Important

The Most Important

" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

Direction

You

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project. "

" 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.' "

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Linus Torvalds

Been

University

" That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. "

" 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. "

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

Linus Torvalds

Software

Free

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. "

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