Linus Torvalds Quotes and Quotation

(born 1969-12-28)

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• "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)"
  • Source: [1]
  • Notes: This was the launch of Linux.

• "Dijkstra probably hates me." ()
  • Source: [1].

• "My name is Linus, and I am your god." ()
  • Source: at the Linux Expo, Durham, North Carolina

• "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on , and let the rest of the world mirror it." ()
  • Source: [1].

• " is for people who cannot write new programs." ()
  • Source: [1], The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate [1]

• "The memory management on the can be used to frighten small children." ()
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• "Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of ." ()
  • Source: [1].
  • Notes: to (author of ).

• "Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well." ()
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• "In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the people." ()
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• "If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do." ()
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• "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." ()
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• "They are smoking crack." ()
  • Source: eWeek interview.
  • Notes: said about .

• "I allege that is full of it." ()
  • Source: eWeek interview.

• "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." ()
  • Source: The New York Times interview.

• "I was an ugly child."
  • Source: Opening sentence in Just for Fun by Torvalds and

• "If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program." ()
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• "You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now." ()
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• "An infinite number of monkeys typing into would never make a good program." ()
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• "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had." ()
  • Source: [1]
  • Notes: Comment made about people who did not like Linux's mascot, .

• "There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong." ()
  • Source: Kerstetter, Jim, "Linus Torvalds: SCO Is 'Just Too Wrong'," _BusinessWeek Online_, 2004-02-02

• "Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus." ()
  • Source: LinuxWorldExclusive: Linus Torvalds Makes Startling Admission, Discloses *Real* Fathers of Linux
  • Notes: In response to 's claim that Linus Torvalds is not the real father of Linux.

• ""regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect." ()
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• "Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law." ()
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• "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed ", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*"." ()
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• "Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say "hey, that _almost_ works for me", and they'll get involved in the project. " ()
  • Source: Linux Times Interview (October 25, 2004).

• "[...] the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it." ()
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• "See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)" ()
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• "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free."
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• "I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do."
  • Source: Supposedly one of his favorite phrases; Referenced in 's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".

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• "Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." ()
  • Source: "" by .
  • Notes: Called .

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