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Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as working for the competition.
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I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
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I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
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You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.
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I think the term intellectual property should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
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By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
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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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Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.
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Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
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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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Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.
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I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
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