For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.

Just in general, staying healthy and active is important.

I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.

I'm not a crier.

Mascara is my go-to product before stepping out of the house.

My mom is really tough.

Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

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

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

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

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

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.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

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.'

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

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.