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No problem is too big it can't be run away from
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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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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The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
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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 somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.
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Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.
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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.
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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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If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
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Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
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People will realize that software is not a product you use it to build a product.
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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
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I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.
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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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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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I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.
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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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One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.
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In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
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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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The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited.
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