Linus Torvalds Quotes

Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).

Linus Torvalds

• People
• Together
• Random

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Start
  • Agreement

• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Marriage

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Space
  • Basketball
  • Create

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Time
  • City
  • Space

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Rights

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Generation

• Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Up
  • Today
  • Night

• What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

  

  George Packer
  • People
  • House
  • Single

• Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Together
  • Random