Linus Torvalds quotes - page 2

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to. (Linus Torvalds)
I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context"). View quote
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me. View quote
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C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs. View quote
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code. View quote
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Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain. View quote
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended. View quote
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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. View quote
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle. View quote
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them. View quote
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C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. (Linus Torvalds)
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside. View quote
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Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals. View quote
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I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. View quote
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program. View quote
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I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have. View quote
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. View quote
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I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. View quote
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The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly. View quote
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OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. View quote
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease. (Linus Torvalds)
It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful. View quote
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If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development. View quote
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The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question. View quote
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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. View quote
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