Linus Torvalds Quotes
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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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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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Gcc is crap.
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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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Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.
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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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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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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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I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
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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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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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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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You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.
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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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EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).
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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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Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.
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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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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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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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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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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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You try to claim that the GPLv3 causes 'More developers', and that, my idiotic penpal, is just crazy talk that you made up.