Linus Torvalds Quotes about Technology

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

Linus Torvalds

Sex, Technology, Linux

Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference,

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

Linus Torvalds

Technology, Evil, Microsoft

Linus Torvalds‏ @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.

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

Technology, Trying, Microsoft

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Linus Torvalds

Philosophy, Technology, Laughing

Google Groups post (linux.dev.kernel newsgroup), groups.google.com. October 16, 1996.

I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.

Linus Torvalds

Technology, People, Perception

Source: www.osnews.com

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

Linus Torvalds

Technology, Evil, Microsoft

"THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 9-28-03: QUESTIONS FOR LINUS TORVALDS; The Sharer". Interview with David Diamond, www.nytimes.com. September 28, 2003.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

Linus Torvalds

Nice, Technology, People

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

Linus Torvalds

Technology, Order, People

Source: www.linux.com

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

Linus Torvalds

Technology, Thinking, Turtles

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.