Linus Torvalds Quotes

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Linus Torvalds

Profession : Businessman

Birth : December 28, 1969

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

Linus Torvalds

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

Linus Torvalds

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

Linus Torvalds

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

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That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Linus Torvalds

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

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Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

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In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

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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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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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Any program is only as good as it is useful.

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I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

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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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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

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Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

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I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

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