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" 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. "

Linus Torvalds

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. "

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

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

" 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 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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "