Linus Torvalds Quotes

Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using

Linus Torvalds

• Control
• Crazy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Love
  • Questions
  • Tradition

• For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Differences

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fear

• I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Team
  • Serving

• I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Changes

• I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Man
  • Best

• Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Need
  • Relax

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.

  

  Karen Elson
  • America
  • Romance
  • British

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Energy
  • Security
  • Tax

• In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • America
  • Black

• In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class;and in ordinary life, despite the high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beet-root sugar, and potato spirits.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Up
  • Truth

• When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.

  

  Alan Furst

• I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Control

• Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading to girls and women, especially since there's not enough of a counterbalance from those who rely on their other assets, like their music. Also, with the new obsession with all things "booty," it's important that women - and it's often women of color - aren't turned into mere caricatures. Right now it's: "Bend over." That's all people want to see. That's crazy. It's so far from where we should be.

  

  Santi White
  • Crazy
  • Confusing
  • Pop Stars

• Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Control
  • Crazy