Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :)
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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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It's one of those rare 'perfect' kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own damn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.
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My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
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Dijkstra probably hates me.
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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
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I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
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Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the gall to talk about 'Unix design' and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!
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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
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Torvalds, Linus (2007-03-19). The Torvalds Transcript: Why I 'Absolutely Love' GPL Version 2. Retrieved on 2008-12-31.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
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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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The thing that has always disturbed me about
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Nvidia, fuck you!
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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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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
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If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.
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Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.