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Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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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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I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
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I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.
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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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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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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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The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
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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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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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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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People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
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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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A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows
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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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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
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I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.
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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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Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.
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Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.
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