Linus Torvalds quotes

" I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. " # Science and Scientists # Love # Freedom

" ...even if the Hurd didn't depend on Linux code (and as far as I know, it does, but since I think they have their design heads firmly up their *sses anyway with that whole microkernel thing, I've never felt it was worth my time even looking at their code), I don't believe a religiously motivated development community can ever generate as good code except by pure chance. " # Belief # Love # Life and Living

" I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least _thought_ about in pretty much any context"). " # President # Evolution # Love

" I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do. " # Laziness # Love # Credit

" C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. " # Computers # Language # Life and Living

" We all know Linux is great…it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. " # Acting and Actors

" If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. " # Travel and Tourism # Writers and Writing # Love

" The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. " # Memory # Management # Fear

" Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. " # Belief # Fathers # Life and Living

" Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law. " # Law and Lawyers # Morality # Power