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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.

Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.
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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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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.
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I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.
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The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
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I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.
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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
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One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.
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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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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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If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.
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I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.
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The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
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Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.
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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
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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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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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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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