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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
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I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
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What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
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I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
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It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.
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People will realize that software is not a product you use it to build a product.
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The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.
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If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
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People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
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I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
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A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
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I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.
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If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.
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If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
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