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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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I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
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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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Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
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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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I have an ego the size of a small planet.
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I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
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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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Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
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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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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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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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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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Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
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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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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
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You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
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Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.
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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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Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
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