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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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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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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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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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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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 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 have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
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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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WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!
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My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
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Dijkstra probably hates me.
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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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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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Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.
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Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.
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One of the things, none of the distributions have ever done right is application packaging ... making binaries for linux desktop applications is a major fucking pain in the ass.
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Friends don't let friends use gcc '-W'.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.