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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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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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.
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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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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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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 (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.
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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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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-12). Linux Nukes 386 Support - Slashdot. Retrieved on 2013-08-10.
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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 wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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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.
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I don’t care about you.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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…the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it.