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Thing Quotes by Linus Torvalds
- The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
- I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that…
- You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head…
- When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers…
- Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
- 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 want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
- The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
- The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly…
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