Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

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.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

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").

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.