Linus Torvalds Quotes

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• The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce…
• I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.
• 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…
• Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
• Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
• If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
• Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
• Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
• A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of…
• On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
• Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
• Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
• Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
• Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
• Portability is for people who cannot write new programs
• A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows
• An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
• We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
• One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat…
• It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public…

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