Linus Torvalds Quotes
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
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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.
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Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!
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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.
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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.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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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.
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What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.
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When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.
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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!
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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.
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All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
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I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.
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I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like!
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I feel like my calling is to show people joy: to make them feel like there's something to look forward to.
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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.
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I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.
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We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the poem. And I don’t write two or three lines and then come back the next day and write two or three more; I write the whole poem at one sitting and then come back to it from time to time over the months or years and rework it.
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The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.
