Linus Torvalds Quotes

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

I honestly think hipsters eat with their assholes because they consume everything wrong.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

I think the world of you...and you know what condition the world is in today.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

Developers, developers, developers...

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse