Linus Torvalds quotes - page 5

Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using PREEMPT_RT. (Linus Torvalds)
Obsessing about things is important, and things really do matter, but if you can't let go of them, you'll end up crazy. View quote
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I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep. View quote
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So LSM stays in. No ifs, buts, maybes or anything else. When I see the security people making sane arguments and agreeing on something, that will change. Quite frankly, I expect hell to freeze over before that happens, and pigs will be nesting in trees. But hey, I can hope. View quote
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Guess what? Wheels have been round for a really long time, and anybody who "reinvents" the new wheel is generally considered a crackpot. It turns out that "round" is simply a good form for a wheel to have. It may be boring, but it just tends to roll better than a square, and "hipness" has nothing what-so-ever to do with it. View quote
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EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI). View quote
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The main reason there are no raw devices [in Linux] is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea. View quote
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You try to claim that the GPLv3 causes "More developers", and that, my idiotic penpal, is just crazy talk that you made up. View quote
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me. View quote
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...git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it's one of the reasons git has been fairly successful [...] I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. View quote
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First off, I'm actually perfectly well off. I live in a good-sized house, with a nice yard, with deer occasionally showing up and eating the roses (my wife likes the roses more, I like the deer more, so we don't really mind). I've got three kids, and I know I can pay for their education. What more do I need? The thing is, being a good programmer actually pays pretty well; being acknowledged as being world-class pays even better. I simply didn't need to start a commercial company. And it's just about the least interesting thing I can even imagine. I absolutely hate paperwork. I couldn't take care of employees if I tried. A company that I started would never have succeeded – it's simply not what I'm interested in! So instead, I have a very good life, doing something that I think is really interesting, and something that I think actually matters for people, not just me. And that makes me feel good. (Linus Torvalds)
Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers. View quote
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If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened. View quote
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XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist. View quote
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[GPL] version 3 was not a good "here we give you version 2" and then we try to sneak in this new rules and try force everyone to upgrade; that was the part I disliked. The FSF did really sneaky stuff, downright immoral in my opinion. View quote
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Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.) View quote
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WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! View quote
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I allege that SCO is full of it. View quote
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I wish everybody was as nice as I am. View quote
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I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants. View quote
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So the whole "We have a list and we're not telling you" should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, "nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!" (Linus Torvalds)
Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid. View quote
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They are smoking crack. View quote
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Your code is shit.. your argument is shit. View quote
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Please, as you emerge from your holiday-induced food coma, do give it a quick test so that we can all be happy about the final release next weekend. View quote
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Occupation: American Businessman
Born: December 28, 1969
Quotes count: 233
Wikipedia: Linus Torvalds

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