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I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes. — Linus Roache

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S. — Linus Roache

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world. — Linus Pauling

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. — Linus Torvalds

I've been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in 'Jewel In The Crown.' — Linus Roache

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. — Linus Torvalds

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. — Linus Torvalds

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later. — Linus Torvalds

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. — Linus Torvalds

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect. — Linus Torvalds

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. — Linus Torvalds

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently. — Linus Torvalds

Life ... is a relationship between molecules. — Linus Pauling

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. — Linus Torvalds

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot. — Linus Torvalds

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. — 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'. — Linus Torvalds

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference. — Linus Torvalds

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. — Linus Torvalds

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters — Linus Torvalds

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. — Linus Torvalds

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain. — Linus Torvalds

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good. — Linus Roache

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

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do — Linus Torvalds

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. — Linus Torvalds

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. — Linus Torvalds

No problem is too big it can't be run away from — Linus Torvalds

Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter. — Charles M. Schulz

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. — Linus Torvalds

I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. — Linus Pauling

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. — Linus Torvalds

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. — Linus Torvalds

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds

I am a traveller in both time and space, to be where I have been. — Linus Caldwell

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. — Linus Pauling

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end ...
Charlie: When do the good things start? — Charles M. Schulz

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. — Linus Torvalds

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning. — Linus Torvalds

Well from now on, Linus think for yourself ... Don't take any advice from anyone! — Charles M. Schulz

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it. — Linus Torvalds

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling

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. — Linus Torvalds

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. — Linus Torvalds

New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world. — Linus Roache

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. — Linus Torvalds

People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves. — Linus Torvalds

[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?]
Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones. — Linus Pauling

Trying to act cold is a challenge when your makeup's running and sweat is pouring down your neck. — Linus Roache

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. — Linus Torvalds

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it. — Linus Roache

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself. — Linus Torvalds

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health. — Linus Pauling

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

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds

Sabrina: "But you don't believe in marriage."

Linus: "Yes, I do. It's why I've never married. — Samuel Taylor

I have an ego the size of a small planet — Linus Torvalds

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud. — Linus Pauling

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. — Linus Torvalds

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance. — Richard Stallman

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. — Linus Torvalds

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City. — Linus Pauling

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. — Linus Torvalds

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures. — Linus Torvalds

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. — Linus Torvalds

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. — Linus Torvalds

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do. — Linus Torvalds

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom. — Linus Pauling

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works. — Linus Torvalds

See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo."
"He says he's not your sweet babboo."
"What does he know? — Charles M. Schulz

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy ... How can I ever forget them ... — Charles M. Schulz

Linus Pauling famously said, If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas. — Anonymous

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half. — Martial

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. — Linus Torvalds

My name is Linus, and I am your God. — Linus Torvalds

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously. — Linus Torvalds

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. — Linus Torvalds

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry. — Linus Pauling

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm. — Linus Pauling

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows — Linus Torvalds

- Fair enough, dit Linus Brandell. — David Lagercrantz

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. — Linus Torvalds

Linus Lucas was fourteen years old, a number that made the spoons fall right out of our mouths. — Heather O'Neill

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. — Linus Pauling

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. — Linus Torvalds

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. — Linus Pauling

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. - LINUS PAULING — Thomas Kelley

We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. — Linus Torvalds

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. — Linus Torvalds

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. — Linus Pauling

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product, — Linus Torvalds

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. — Linus Torvalds

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible. — Linus Roache

Today, I will offer free web hosting and developpement helps for
projects under Sourceforge — Linus Torvalds

I don't see myself as a visionary at all. — Linus Torvalds

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me. — Linus Torvalds

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good. — Linus Pauling

You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus. — King Sun