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Programming Quotes by Linus Torvalds
- Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.
- I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not…
- 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.
- Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
- The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
- Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
- Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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