My name is Linus, and I am your God.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people.

It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.

Even a chameleon needs the proper amount of suction.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.