Linus Torvalds Quotes
I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
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I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
