Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging ,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more.… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
