Linus Torvalds

"Every expert was once a beginner."

"The strength of an open community lies in diversity."

"Fear is the enemy of progress."

"You can't manage what you don't measure."

"The power of open source is that it's open."

"Life is about choices. Make the right ones."

"Success is not about the destination, it's about the journey."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"Never stop learning, never stop evolving."

"Community is built on trust and respect."

"The time to fix it is now, not later."

"Simple solutions are often the best solutions."

"Passion is the fuel of innovation."

"Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life."

"The legacy you leave is the code you write."

"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."

"The Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger.' Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself.' That's it."

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

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

"I just enjoy what I do, and hopefully it translates into people having fun with the software."

"The thing about standards is that there are so many of them."

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

"I appreciate cleanliness in code. It's not about making it look pretty. It's about making it understandable."

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."

"You can't please everyone, and you don't need to."

"In open source, the person who writes the code makes the decisions."

"I'm not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering and exploring."

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."