Linus torvalds

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as...

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

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.