6 Linus Torvalds Quotes on Leadership

Linus Torvalds quotes on leadership

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

18. If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.

21. I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.

54. I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

65. I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't _have_ to.

71. Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.