I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

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

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

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

My name is Linus, and I am your God.