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I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
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I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.
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