“When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just sta...” — Linus Torvalds Quote

“When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'”

“In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.”

“I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.”

“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 such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.”

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

“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 mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.”

“Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.”

“The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.”

“I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.”

“Going out on to the pitch and being mentally free is a massive thing.”

“Free Tibet before free trade.”