Tag: torvalds

1991

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

1994

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

1996 – Para Bill Gates

I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

1997 – Acerca dos produtos Apple

The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!

2003, um comentário modesto acerca do iPod e da loja online iTunes

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can’t overestimate it!

2006, acerca da Microsoft

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

2007, acerca do seu salário anual de $1

I make fifty cents for showing up … and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

1980

There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

1983

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

1984

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

1987

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

1991

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

1993

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

1995

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

1996

I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time… I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough.

1998

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don’t evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, ‘how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?’

1998

One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people’s browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

2001

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

2004

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time.

1991

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

1996

Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

1998

My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.

2001

Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

2003

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

2006

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

2006

Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I’m flexible, and not black-and-white.)

2007

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

2008

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can’t stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.