Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

Linus Torvalds's Popular Quotes

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

- Linus Torvalds

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

- Linus Torvalds

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

- Linus Torvalds

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

- Linus Torvalds

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will…

- Linus Torvalds

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 …

- Linus Torvalds

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

- Linus Torvalds

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

- Linus Torvalds

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

- Linus Torvalds