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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: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
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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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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
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Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.
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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 may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
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I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
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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 don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
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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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One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.
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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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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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Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.
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You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
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Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
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People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
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I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.
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I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
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