Linus Torvalds Quotes
"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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Young girls - like friends of my daughter's - always ask if we do prom dresses, and we do dresses that would be lovely, but £2,000 isn't realistic for most girls. The Debenhams collection will hopefully be great for that sort of event because the price point is much lower.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.
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All rappers are princesses like me.
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Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
