Linus Torvalds
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"Linus Benedict Torvalds" is a Finnish American software engineering/software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular kernel for operating systems. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel and now acts as the project's coordinator. He also created the revision control system Git (software)/Git. He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award/IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.

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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

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."

Given enoug eyeballs, all thugs are callow.

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

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

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 a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

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.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.