Linus Torvalds Quotes
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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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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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I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
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I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.
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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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Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?
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Your code is shit.. your argument is shit.
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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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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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In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.
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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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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
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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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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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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 (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.
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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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I wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and 'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.
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Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.