Linus Torvalds Quotes
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When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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Nobody could believe in me the way I believed in myself.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
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Call me irresponsibleYes, I'm unreliableBut it's undeniably trueThat I'm irresponsibly mad for you.
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You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.
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Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
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Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
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In life sometimes we have to let go of the good things so better things can fall into place.
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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
