Linus Torvalds

Linux today has millions of users, thousands of developers, and a growing market. It is used in embedded systems; it is used to control robotic devices; it has flown on the space shuttle. I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination. But honestly this has all taken me a bit by surprise—I was much more aware of the transition from one Linux user to one hundred Linux users than the transition from one hundred to one million users.