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When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
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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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All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
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I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.
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A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows
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If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
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Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
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I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.
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Whoever came up with hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode should be shot.
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