Linus Torvalds Quotes

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

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• I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Jump
  • Ready
  • Ring

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.

  

  Magdalena Frackowiak
  • Like
  • Look
  • Makeup

• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Moon

• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Face
  • Status Quo

• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Beauty

• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Book
  • Boat

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Development
  • Socialism

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Need

• I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Time
  • Education
  • Youth

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Laughter

• Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Meaningful

• I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Hope
  • Die