Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.
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Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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I love shopping! I look for new shopping portals. I keep buying a lot of stuff online. I don't follow any one person per se, but if I feel that the particular wear will look good on me, I pick it up without thinking.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
