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My name is Linus, and I am your God.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
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Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
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I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
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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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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.
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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
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Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
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People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
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One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.
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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'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.
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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 don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
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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 love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.
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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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