Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
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Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
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In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.
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And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
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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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Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
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Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.
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Gcc is crap.
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I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.
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EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).
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We're not masturbating around with some research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a *usable* system. It's why it's not some crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.
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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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You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.
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I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
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GPL version 3 was not a good 'here we give you version 2' and then we try to sneak in this new rules and try force everyone to upgrade; that was the part I disliked. The FSF did really sneaky stuff, downright immoral in my opinion.
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So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?
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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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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using
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Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, interviewer (1998‐03-02). First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?. Retrieved on 2013-06-02.
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I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.
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Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.
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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.