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“Most 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

#Fun #Program #Programming
“Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Technology #Evil #Microsoft
“The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Thinking #Keys #People
“In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Real #Destiny #Source
“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

#People #Hey #Window
“In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#People #Source #Wells
“There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Linux #Use #Care
“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Data #Worry #Structure
“In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Opinion #Making Money #Operating Systems
“I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Trust #Differences #Data
“Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Artist #Hobbies #Artistic
“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

#Forever #Pieces #Research
“Any program is only as good as it is useful.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Program
“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

#Cat #Office #Want
“We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Doe #Linux #Infinite
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Done #Programming #Ability
“Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Computer #Economy #Worst
“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

#Linux #Just Being #Geek
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Programming #Show Me #Shows
“Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Thinking #People #Grace
“I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Goal #Competition #Trying
“I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Linux #Unexpected #Refrigerators
“I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Long #Vision #Trying
“I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Economy #Pragmatic #Persons
“If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Hate #Want #Ends
“All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Linux #Operating Systems
“If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Writing #Different #World
“Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Real #Men #Mirrors
“The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Sports #Moving #Air
“Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.”
-- Linus Torvalds

#Simplicity #Bugs #Complexity

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