I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.