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I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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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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I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.
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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.
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It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
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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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My name is Linus, and I am your God.
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