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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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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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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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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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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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
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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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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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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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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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We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.
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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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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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Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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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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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.
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Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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I think Leopard is a much better system than Windows Vista … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.