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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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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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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I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.
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I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.
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I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.
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When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.
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You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.
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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."
