Linus Torvalds Quotes

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

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

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

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

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

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

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

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.

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.

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

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

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

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

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

The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.