Linus Torvalds Quotes

Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.

Linus Torvalds

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• How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Army

• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • School
  • Understand

• Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Racism

• First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Help
  • Suffering
  • End

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Question
  • Very
  • Beatles

• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Style
  • Wedding
  • Pictures

• I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Shopping
  • Clothing

• Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Family
  • Food

• The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Me
  • Greatest

• You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

  

  Rachel True
  • Work
  • Trying
  • True

• It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Power
  • Understand
  • Irony

• Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Reading
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Country
  • Real

• Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Want
  • Like
  • Veil

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Identity

• It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Up
  • Job

• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  

  Antonia Thomas
  • Music
  • Father
  • Theatre

• I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Girl

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.

  

  Linus Torvalds