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I may be a huge computer nerd, but even so I don't think education should be about computers. Not as a subject, and not as a classroom resource either.
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I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that 'it happened' – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense 'the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context').
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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.'
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I don’t care about you.
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
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I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
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(In answer to the question: In the extreme case, if it was just you doing all the code, and the rest of the world quietly used it, would it make sense to give it away free? Unless you're particularly grateful for other free things you've got off the Net, would the answer be No?':)
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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
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Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :)
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Nvidia, fuck you!
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.
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I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.
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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
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Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-12). Linux Nukes 386 Support - Slashdot. Retrieved on 2013-08-10.
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You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.
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EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
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If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust' – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, interviewer (1998‐03-02). First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?. Retrieved on 2013-06-02.
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The thing that has always disturbed me about
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The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and 'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.
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I wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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