Linus Torvalds Quotes

There aren't enough swear-words in the English language, so now I'll have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep.

But this is definitely another of those "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Al-biwan Ke-Viro, you're my only hope" issues. Al? Please don't make me wear that golden bikini.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that "technically true" is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than "technically" true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.

WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!

I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.

Obsessing about things is important, and things really do matter, but if you can't let go of them, you'll end up crazy.

[...] I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15" (or 17"!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more.

Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.

[In response to ] Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

I tend to call myself an anti-visionary because to me, what is much more important than vision is execution. I've always quoted Edison saying that genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration [...].

I wish everybody was as nice as I am.