Linus Torvalds Quotes
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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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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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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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The thing that has always disturbed me about
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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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I don’t care about you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Torvalds, Linus (2007-03-19). The Torvalds Transcript: Why I 'Absolutely Love' GPL Version 2. Retrieved on 2008-12-31.
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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.
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Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.