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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

Linus Torvalds

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

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

" Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. "

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

" If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

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Fame

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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'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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference. "

" I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' "

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

" Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. "

" 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. "

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