Linus Torvalds Quotes

My days are whatever I want them to be.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

Now the power is in your hands!

With it we can create our own destiny. It’s a sovereignty issue. It’s our land, and we’ll do what we want with it.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.

I can do whatever I want.

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

I own my own time.

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.