Linus Torvalds

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.

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.

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

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.