Linus Torvalds Quotes

If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

Linus Torvalds

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Culture
  • Wealth
  • Labor

• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Enjoy

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Day

• We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Need
  • Back

• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
  • Eye
  • Ball
  • Your

• I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • School
  • Religious
  • Years

• I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Respect

• While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Happy

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• 'Villain' is such a harsh word.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Word
  • Villain
  • Harsh

• At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team.

  

  Pele
  • Family
  • Team
  • Responsibility

• During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Important
  • Choices

• I don't think that swearing or gratuitous violence or sex make a show better. I just think there are natural rhythms to a human being in these situations, and what happens in these situations that cable allows is a natural reaction.

  

  Philip Winchester
  • Violence
  • Sex

• Only by the concrete whole which comprises the object and the situation are the vectors which determine the dynamics of the event defined.

  

  Kurt Lewin

• If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

  

  Linus Torvalds