Top 88 Quotes by Linus Torvalds

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

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

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.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

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

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

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