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Just Quotes by Linus Torvalds
- I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people…
- I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw…
- 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.…
- Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
- 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,…
- A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive…
- I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
- I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
- Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
- To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be…
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