Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. - Linus Torvalds
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
- Linus Torvalds
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. - Linus Torvalds
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. - Linus Torvalds
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. - Linus Torvalds
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily … - Linus Torvalds
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily …
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will… - Linus Torvalds
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will…
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. - Linus Torvalds
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development. - Linus Torvalds
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. - Linus Torvalds
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
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