"I am not a visionary. I do not have a 5 year plan, I am an engineer. I am perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds, looking at stars saying "I want to go there". But I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole that is right in front of me before I fall in. This is kind of person I am." -Linus Torvalds, TED2016, Feb 2016, https://youtu.be/k8lVCiQrl8s
"Code tends to be somewhat black and white. There's often a fairly good way to decide, this is done correctly and this is not done well. Code either works or it doesn't, which means that there's less room for arguments." -Linus Torvalds, TED2016, Feb 2016, https://youtu.be/9XgSPKHWhb8
"Science was there first. But then science ended up being pretty closed, with very expensive journals and some of that going on. And open source is making a comeback in science." -Linus Torvalds, TED2016, Feb 2016, https://youtu.be/V7RAUAoo6Ms