Linus Torvalds Quotes

Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.

Linus Torvalds

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• There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Different
  • Inside
  • Many

• But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Movie

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Darkness
  • Go
  • Turn

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Think
  • Change
  • Cancer

• Revolutions go not backward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Go
  • Revolutions
  • Backward

• As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Always
  • Abortion
  • Late

• As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Pain
  • Athlete

• You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Influence

• I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Thoughts

• Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Support
  • Kind

• The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Air
  • Made

• Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

  

  Larry Wall

• Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.

  

  Ben Hecht
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power
  • Nature

• We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Future

• I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

  

  David Dunn
  • Guy
  • Free

• I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

  

  Betty White
  • People
  • Words
  • Puppy

• The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now, been plumbed and digested. In this book, Chandak Sengoopta offers both a history of hormone discovery and a chronicle of how this discovery transformed our concepts of the body and how our existing concepts of sex and sexuality, in turn, informed our concepts for understanding hormones.

  

  Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Literature
  • Discovery
  • Sexuality

• 'Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.''I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,' Emily hissed. 'Ever hear of it?''They’re out of fashion in New York,' Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • She
  • Feeling
  • Fashion

• With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Respect
  • Stomach
  • No Respect

• I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

  

  Norman Quentin Cook
  • Shoes
  • Ladders
  • Superstitious

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.

  

  Linus Torvalds