Linus Torvalds Quotes
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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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I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
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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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They are smoking crack.
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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
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(In answer to the question: In the extreme case, if it was just you doing all the code, and the rest of the world quietly used it, would it make sense to give it away free? Unless you're particularly grateful for other free things you've got off the Net, would the answer be No?':)
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Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.
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My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
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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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Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.
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Nvidia, fuck you!
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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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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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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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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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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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
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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.
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And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
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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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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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Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
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The thing that has always disturbed me about