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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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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. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.
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Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
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I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.
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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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I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.
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I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.
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It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
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All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
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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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Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
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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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Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
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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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What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
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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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Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.
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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
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A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
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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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The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
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