Linus Torvalds Quotes

We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.

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• I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Why

• The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

  

  Xenophon
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Fire

• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Children
  • Future

• Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Out
  • Counting
  • Carried

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Men
  • Parents
  • Brother

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Serious
  • Potential
  • Medical

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Live
  • Know
  • Afraid

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Universe
  • Moments
  • Just

• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Space

• In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

  

  John Glenn
  • Space

• The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

  

  John Desmond Bernal
  • Food
  • Respect
  • Control

• A wonderful side effect of being in a successful band is the places you go.

  

  Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs
  • Band
  • Places
  • Effect

• Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.

  

  Michelle MacLaren
  • Sometimes
  • Forget
  • Because

• We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.

  

  Linus Torvalds
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