Linus Torvalds quotes - page 8

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. (Linus Torvalds)
Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day. View quote
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(In answer to the question: In the extreme case, if it was just you doing all the code, and the rest of the world quietly used it, would it make sense to give it away free? Unless you're particularly grateful for other free things you've got off the Net, would the answer be No?":) I don't necessarily think so. It might be true in certain niche areas, but almost any project will give a developer that "feel good" feeling when he has users and he feels he is doing something worthwhile. I really don't think you need all that much "quid pro quo" in programming - most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. View quote
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You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before. View quote
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Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say. View quote
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My personal opinion of Mach is not very high. Frankly, it's a piece of crap. It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and even managed to make up a few of its own. View quote
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I was 21 at the time, so I was young, but I had already programmed for half my life, basically. And every project before that had been completely personal and it was a revelation when people just started commenting, started giving feedback on your code. And even before they started giving code back, that was, I think, one of the big moments where I said, "I love other people!" View quote
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Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive. View quote
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Just for fun. View quote
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I'm personally convinced that computer science has a lot in common with physics. Both are about how the world works at a rather fundamental level. The difference, of course, is that while in physics you're supposed to figure out how the world is made up, in computer science you create the world. Within the confines of the computer, you're the creator. You get to ultimately control everything that happens. If you're good enough, you can be God. On a small scale. View quote
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First we had two earthquakes - fine, this week God not only hates republicans, but apparently us kernel developers too. But we kernel developers laugh in the face of danger, and a 5.5 earthquake just makes us whimper and hide in the closet for a while. (Linus Torvalds)
Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. View quote
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I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. View quote
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What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. View quote
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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. View quote
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Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. View quote
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I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. View quote
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I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project. View quote
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In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself. View quote
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An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing. View quote
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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. (Linus Torvalds)
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. View quote
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Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. View quote
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I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board. View quote
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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. View quote
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