Linus Torvalds Quotes
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.
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We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.
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A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
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What's interesting is that younger characters just have a more vibrant, exciting point of view on the world. They are more emotional, they are more dramatic, and they are just electric.
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I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
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And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
