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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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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WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!
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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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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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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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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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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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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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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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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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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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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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"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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Friends don't let friends use gcc '-W'.
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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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My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
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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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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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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.