I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me. Linus Torvalds More Quotes by Linus Torvalds More Quotes From Linus Torvalds I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. Linus Torvalds microsoft hatred thinking Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver. Linus Torvalds documentation fire trying To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. Linus Torvalds microsoft technology trying I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do. Linus Torvalds lazy credit people I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. Linus Torvalds cat office want I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary. Linus Torvalds leopards scary thinking An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program. Linus Torvalds monkeys infinite numbers In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. Linus Torvalds microsoft humor funny It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning. Linus Torvalds masturbation intellectual exercise I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. Linus Torvalds linux refrigerators unexpected The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. Linus Torvalds intimidation nasty world And what's the Internet without the rick-roll? Linus Torvalds internet Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them. Linus Torvalds black-and-white people thinking 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"). Linus Torvalds crazy fundamentals believe If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour. Linus Torvalds excess running thinking So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous. Linus Torvalds rich care humble I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. Linus Torvalds data trust differences The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited. Linus Torvalds issues track development I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect. Linus Torvalds microsoft would-be sides If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. Linus Torvalds inspiring inspire thinking
