Linus Torvalds Quotes

Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.

Linus Torvalds

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am only about winning and getting better.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Winning
  • Better

• Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Parents
  • Health
  • Responsibility

• People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Color
  • Brotherhood

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • World
  • Career
  • Value

• I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Enough

• The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Future
  • House
  • Most

• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Actor
  • Still
  • Appearances

• I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Look
  • Lazy
  • Window

• By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Government
  • Years
  • Ethnic

• I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Energy

• I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• My ambition is to get better as an actor.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Better
  • Actor
  • Ambition

• What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art

• I'm not a libertarian. If you are, you're welcome to vote for me and help this party, but we're not gonna build the party around libertarian ideas.

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • Help
  • Party

• I have people I talk to on a regular basis about what's going on in my life, what am I struggling with, and where my faith is at.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Life
  • Faith

• You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Different
  • Today
  • Interesting

• I always thought the name of my first book would be 'The Insecure Chef,' because when I started cooking, I was so nervous.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Book
  • Cooking

• While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

  

  Kate Cann
  • Personal
  • Appearance
  • Obsession

• Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Sleep
  • Bored
  • Cruel

• Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.

  

  Linus Torvalds