Linus Torvalds Develop Quotations

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.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.