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Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.
— Linus Roache
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
— Linus Torvalds
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
— 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
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
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
- 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
Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
— Linus Pauling
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
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
— Linus Torvalds
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
