Linus Torvalds

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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

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Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

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In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

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I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

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You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

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I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

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An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

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I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

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It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

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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'.

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The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

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I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

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In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Quotes by Linus Torvalds