Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.
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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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The thing that has always disturbed me about
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I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
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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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In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.
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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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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.
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I wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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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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I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.