Linus Torvalds

"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'Git'."

"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."

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

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

"I just do what I do best. I write good code and I release it."

"The Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Humans love it."

"Programmers are in a very different category than builders - the digital age is about thinking before doing, not doing before thinking."

"I could do a world tour, but I'd rather sit at home with my code."

"The thing about open source is that even the failures are informative."

"Real wealth is not about having a lot of money. Real wealth is about having choices."

"I wish more people got excited about the things they do."

"Just for fun: that's what it's all about."

"The worst thing that can happen to a good project is to be run by a charismatic idiot."

"I'm not a visionary. I just fix things."

"Free speech is important, but not necessarily free beer."

"In real open source, you don't invite developers. You just announce the project and hope."

"The biggest difference between me and other open source people is that I'm in a position of power."

"Your code should be easy to understand. If you need long variable names, maybe your code isn't clear enough."

"I think the Unix philosophy is very different from the Windows philosophy."

"Patience is a virtue that I think we've lost in this day and age."

"You can't have innovation or freedom without the ability to mess up."

"The Linux community has done an amazing job."

"I am not a visionary. I just try to understand what it is that users need."

"When you are not willing to fail, you're not willing to succeed either."

"Software is a lot like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

"I want to continue to work on an open source operating system."

"The number one reason for the failure of any project is people."

"Don't tell me how hard you worked on something. Tell me how good it is."

"I don't think it's right to make huge changes like this in 2.5."

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."