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Linus Torvalds


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December 28, 1969
Businessman
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I don't see myself as a visionary at all.


Linus Torvalds
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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.


Linus Torvalds
Tags: Get Paid Linux
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Any program is only as good as it is useful.


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Tags: Good Only Any
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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.


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I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.


Linus Torvalds
Tags: Think Light Thin
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.


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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.
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Tags: Good Positive You
If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
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Tags: You Because Want
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.
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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
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
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Tags: Good Design Sense
When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'
Linus Torvalds
Tags: You People Just
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
Linus Torvalds
Tags: Trust People Me
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.
Linus Torvalds
I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
Linus Torvalds
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.
Linus Torvalds
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Linus Torvalds
Tags: Like Because Get
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
Linus Torvalds