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Linus Torvalds quotes

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“thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say 'OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name'.” Linus Torvalds
“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.” Linus Torvalds
“Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.” Linus Torvalds
“If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.” Linus Torvalds
“'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.” Linus Torvalds
“I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” Linus Torvalds
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” Linus Torvalds
“I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.” Linus Torvalds
“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.” Linus Torvalds
“start small, and think about the details.” Linus Torvalds
“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.” Linus Torvalds
“we humans have never been able to replicate something more complicated than what we ourselves are, yet natural selection did it without even thinking.” Linus Torvalds
“An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.” Linus Torvalds
“On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.” Linus Torvalds
“Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.” Linus Torvalds
“I think Open Source is the right thing to do the same way I believe science is better than alchemy.” Linus Torvalds
“If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.” Linus Torvalds
“I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.” Linus Torvalds

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