Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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Those who own much have much to fear.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Identification of rhythm as the causal counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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«What we have done, which you did not do, is to deceive people.»
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.
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Maybe what made me cry in class was how tired I was and how sad and hard it is, and how rare, to undertake an act that's truly free, and not just a response to a confused surge of drives and fears.
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I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.
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Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.
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There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
