Linus Torvalds

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

I’m doing a free operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU).

If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU Emacs would never make a good program.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)

Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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