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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” 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
“If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.” Linus Torvalds
“An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.” 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
“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
“I think Open Source is the right thing to do the same way I believe science is better than alchemy.” Linus Torvalds
“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

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