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" Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. "
Linus Torvalds
Really
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City
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" Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. "
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" Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. "
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" I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other. "
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" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "
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" I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. "
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" I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. "
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" I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. "
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" I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. "
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" My name is Linus, and I am your God. "
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" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "
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" Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. "
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" It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring. "
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" Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. "
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" The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. "
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" People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. "
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" I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. "
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" Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. "
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" 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, for free.' "
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" I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. "
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" Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. "
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" I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' "
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" No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. "
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" I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names. "
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" Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. "
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" Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day. "
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" I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board. "
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" 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 to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. "
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