My name is Linus, and I am your God.

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.