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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Favorite
  • Grammar

• I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Drink
  • Fair
  • Noodles

• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Sound

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mistake

• All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

  

  Zendaya
  • Dad
  • Point
  • Brothers

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• 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.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• 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?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Book
  • Door

• Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Nature
  • Never

• While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Freedom
  • Discipline

• When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • People
  • Decision

• I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Work
  • Experience
  • College

• I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.

  

  Linus Torvalds
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