Linus Torvalds Quotes

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

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

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

I always work with 18 friends.

Gaming brings people together.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

One of the key components of Miitomo is that you are connecting with your friends. That is a significant measure to ensure that the user experience is consistently pleasant.

We're extremely excited to see more than 500,000 friends around the globe be added within the first 12 hours of launching Friends on Poptropica. The reaction has been extremely positive from fans, and we're proud to bring a completely safe friends offering to kids on our virtual world.

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

I'm motivated by my love to share and teach. I love sharing things that inspire me, and I love connecting with people. Being a part of a community is in the millennial DNA.

Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.

Our species likes being social.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.

It's not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.

I love connected culture.

Here is a fact: If Facebook were a religion, it will be the third largest behind Islam and Christianity. Its success is rooted and capitalizing on the human desire to bond.

If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.