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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.' "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. "

" It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring. "

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

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

" I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. "

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

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

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

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

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