Linus Torvalds quotes - page 7

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. (Linus Torvalds)
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. View quote
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I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. View quote
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Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. View quote
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I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. View quote
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Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? [...] I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix. View quote
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Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix. View quote
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Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just "ignore the bait", but ... time for some serious flamefesting! View quote
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If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program. View quote
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Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well. View quote
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... even if the Hurd didn't depend on Linux code (and as far as I know, it does, but since I think they have their design heads firmly up their *sses anyway with that whole microkernel thing, I've never felt it was worth my time even looking at their code), I don't believe a religiously motivated development community can ever generate as good code except by pure chance. (Linus Torvalds)
It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own damn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways. View quote
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...]. View quote
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was. View quote
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The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances. [*][*] In other words, it's an Oracleism. View quote
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Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth. View quote
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I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that "technically true" is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than "technically" true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference. View quote
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But this is definitely another of those "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Al-biwan Ke-Viro, you're my only hope" issues. Al? Please don't make me wear that golden bikini. View quote
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There aren't enough swear-words in the English language, so now I'll have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap. View quote
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BULLSHIT. Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should have - several of them bear your name. [...] As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE. [...] WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON? View quote
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We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. (Linus Torvalds)
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one. View quote
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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. View quote
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Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. View quote
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I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. View quote
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