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So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

Linus Torvalds's Popular Quotes

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

- Linus Torvalds

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

- Linus Torvalds

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

- Linus Torvalds

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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.

- 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.

- Linus Torvalds

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

- Linus Torvalds