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If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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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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I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
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You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
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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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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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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
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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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Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
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No problem is too big it can't be run away from
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I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .
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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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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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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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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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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 never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
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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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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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Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.
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