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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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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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 am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
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The whole thing is really quite pathetic. Here we have two self-obsessed schoolboys who spend all their time thinking about themselves and their future and not the future of the country.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
