Linus Torvalds

The only thing that matters is the freedom to create.

I'm not a fan of people who are not willing to stand up for what they believe in.

The only way to build something great is to start small.

I'm not a fan of people who are not willing to take responsibility for their actions.

The only thing that matters is the community.

I'm not a fan of people who are not willing to collaborate.

I'm not a fan of people who are not willing to share their knowledge.

The only thing that matters is the open source.

I'm not a fan of people who are not willing to contribute.

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu).

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

The Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

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

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: what works is good.

The whole 'Nobody understands the whole kernel' is a myth. It may have been true once, but it hasn't been true for a long time.

I don't care about the market. I care about the technology.

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

I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds but I'm looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.