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My name is Linus, and I am your God.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
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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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I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.
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I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
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That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
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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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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
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It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.
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Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
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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 may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
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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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When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'
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I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .
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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've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
Linus Torvalds
No problem is too big it can't be run away from
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