Top 88 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

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

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

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

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

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