Linus Torvalds Quotes
I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.
A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.
With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.
Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.
I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.
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 am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.