Linus Torvalds Quotes
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.
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I wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.
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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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It's what I call 'mental masturbation', when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
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Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.
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People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.
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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.
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I don’t care about you.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.
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If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust' – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
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Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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The main reason there are no raw devices in Linux is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-12). Linux Nukes 386 Support - Slashdot. Retrieved on 2013-08-10.
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…the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it.
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A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.