Linus Torvalds Quotes
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
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I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.
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I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.
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XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist.
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It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …
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Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
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Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
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Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
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It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
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C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.
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We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.
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C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.
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I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
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Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's my choice, dammit.
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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
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Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just 'ignore the bait', but … time for some serious flamefesting!
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?…I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves 'why?'. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.