Linus Torvalds Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

  Linus Torvalds

  Air, Useless, Computer

• I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

  Linus Torvalds

  Would Be, Microsoft, Sides

• If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Inspiring, Thinking, Inspire

• Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Just Being, Geek

  "Mr Linux basks in the limelight". BBC World ClickOnline Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. October 5, 2002.

• Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

  Linus Torvalds

  Computer, Economy, Worst

• The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Stupid, Reading, Technology

• Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Mirrors

  Linux-kernel Mailing List, www.webcitation.org. July 20, 1996.

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