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Linux Quotes

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Interview for themes.org, www.jwz.org. June 1998.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

"Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux" by David Needle, edition.cnn.com. October 1, 1998.

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

Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference,

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.

"Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds". Q&A session with the audience at the panel at Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi, www.youtube.com. June 14, 2012.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

Letters-General Questions Answered, www.woz.org.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

"How Microsoft conquered China" by David Kirkpatrick, archive.fortune.com. July 17, 2007.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Ian Stewart (2010). “Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities”, p.89, Profile Books

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

"FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

"Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

"Mr Linux basks in the limelight". BBC World ClickOnline Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. October 5, 2002.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

"Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times". Interview with Dave Newbart, web.archive.org. June 1, 2001.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

"Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.