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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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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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Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
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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'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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To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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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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If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.
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Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
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I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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