Linus Torvalds Quotes

It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

A good head has one hundred hands.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

I believe in smart people.

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

My job is to be a problem-solver.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.