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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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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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The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
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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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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 correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12 and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.
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When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.
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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 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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Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
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I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.
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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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I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
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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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Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.
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What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
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If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.
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The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
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