Linus Torvalds Quotes

Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.

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• People have to evolve.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Evolve

• I could live naked... I love it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Live
  • Love
  • Naked

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • You
  • Never
  • Lose

• I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Look
  • Same

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Give

• Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.

  

  Kate Williams
  • High
  • Empire
  • 19th-Century

• As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Problem

• I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Humility

• It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Character
  • American

• When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • You
  • Very
  • Modernism

• I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Perspective
  • Internet

• We did not think that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • May
  • War

• As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.

  

  Rich Eisen
  • Opportunity
  • Former
  • Participate

• Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Learned
  • Laugh
  • Regarding

• I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience.

  

  Dannii Minogue
  • Experience

• As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

  

  George B. McClellan
  • Respect
  • Military

• I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Experiences
  • Ways
  • Granted

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.

  

  Linus Torvalds