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"My name is Linus, and I am your God."
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"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.""
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"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
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"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
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"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day."
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"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there."
Technology

"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
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"There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is."
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"My name is Linus, and I am your God."
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"I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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