Robert McMillan: Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3). 2012-03-20. [dostęp 2012-06-18]. Cytat: Jobs invited him to Apple’s Cupertino campus and tried to hire him. “Unix for the biggest user base: that was the pitch,” says Torvalds. The condition: He’d have to drop Linux development. “He wanted me to work at Apple doing non-Linux things,” he said. That was a non-starter for Torvalds. Besides, he hated Mac OS’s Mach kernel. (ang.).
Petko Manolov: Linus Torvalds wrote. 2001-11-30. [dostęp 2023-05-18]. Cytat: „Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their engineering practices or their coding style. Linus” (ang.).
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About Linux Kernel. kernel.org, 2021-01-23. [dostęp 2021-02-04]. (ang.).
Jeremy Geelan: Linus Torvalds Reveals How He Herds the Cats of the Linux Kernel. 2004-08-19. [dostęp 2009-09-24]. [zarchiwizowane z tego adresu (2013-07-31)]. Cytat: Joking that all the kernel developers would hear this remark and say, „He’s comparing us to sheep,” Torvalds changed the animal in his metaphor: „It’s more like herding cats.” (ang.).
Jeremy Geelan: Linus Torvalds Reveals How He Herds the Cats of the Linux Kernel. 2004-08-19. [dostęp 2009-09-24]. [zarchiwizowane z tego adresu (2013-07-31)]. Cytat: Joking that all the kernel developers would hear this remark and say, „He’s comparing us to sheep,” Torvalds changed the animal in his metaphor: „It’s more like herding cats.” (ang.).