Linus Torvalds Quotes

I am a programmer.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

I was a programmer.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I love software and I love technology.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Code writers, they are my idols.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

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

This is a software-powered world.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.

Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.