Top 88 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

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.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

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 do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

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