"I wish everybody was as nice as I am."

""Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect."

"My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god."

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

"Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?"

"Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about l…"

"Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix."

"Portability is for people who cannot write new programs."

"Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even…"

"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."