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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
Linus Torvalds

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.
Linus Torvalds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds

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