Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
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We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.
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I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's my choice, dammit.
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I may be a huge computer nerd, but even so I don't think education should be about computers. Not as a subject, and not as a classroom resource either.
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I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)
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Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.
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I think Leopard is a much better system than Windows Vista … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?…I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves 'why?'. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.
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Friends don't let friends use gcc '-W'.
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Dijkstra probably hates me.
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
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Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
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There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.
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My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
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Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.
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BULLSHIT. Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should have - several of them bear your name. ... As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE. ... WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?
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See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.