Linus Torvalds Quotes

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

Microsoft loves Linux.

We can build a better product than Linux.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.