Linus Torvalds Quotes

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Linus Torvalds

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• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Simple
  • Religion
  • Kindness

• Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Country
  • Single
  • Justice

• I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Live
  • Know

• I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Believe
  • Torture
  • Limit

• Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Up
  • Think
  • Path

• Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Live
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm not a gadget freak.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Freak
  • Gadget

• I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Never

• Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

  

  Zendaya
  • Work
  • Age
  • Just

• If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Want
  • Me
  • Day

• In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • School
  • She
  • Silence

• Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Freedom

• What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Women
  • Death
  • Hair

• Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Moon

• Most of my youth I spent being obsessed with Baby Spice, so she was my favorite for a really long time. Now that I'm older, I actually really like Posh Spice the best. Nineties Victoria Beckham is perfection, I think.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Believe

• The first day I got drafted, I felt the fans were really passionate about basketball, and there was going to be a lot of pressure.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Basketball

• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Story

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• People are misers of mental effort. If we don't have the interest or the capacity to look into the arguments, if the message isn't personally relevant, if we judge that we already know all we need to know about a topic, there is no reason to spend precious mental resources.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • People
  • Effort
  • Judge

• Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.

  

  Linus Torvalds