Linus Torvalds Quotes
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.
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The thing that has always disturbed me about
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-12). Linux Nukes 386 Support - Slashdot. Retrieved on 2013-08-10.
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Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.
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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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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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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 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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You try to claim that the GPLv3 causes 'More developers', and that, my idiotic penpal, is just crazy talk that you made up.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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Sometimes '
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2007-03-19). The Torvalds Transcript: Why I 'Absolutely Love' GPL Version 2. Retrieved on 2008-12-31.
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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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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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I don’t care about you.
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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.