Linus Torvalds Quotes
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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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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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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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I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
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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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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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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.
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Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?
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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
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Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.
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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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Yeah. And as Linus once said: most numerical problems today in pure CPU cycles are actually 3D games. … It's not 'incorrect' to say that you want the result faster, even if that result doesn't match your theoretical models.
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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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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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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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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
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I wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-12). Linux Nukes 386 Support - Slashdot. Retrieved on 2013-08-10.