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. -Linus Torvalds Positive
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. -Linus Torvalds Computers
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. -Linus Torvalds Politics
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. -Linus Torvalds Fear
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. -Linus Torvalds Science
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' -Linus Torvalds Technology
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. -Linus Torvalds Trust
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. -Linus Torvalds Technology
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. -Linus Torvalds Trust
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. -Linus Torvalds Intelligence
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. -Linus Torvalds Good
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. -Linus Torvalds Trust
