Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. "
Linus Torvalds
Hate
You
Start
Related Quotes:
" I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference. "
Linus Torvalds
See
Think
You
" Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them. "
Linus Torvalds
Software
System
Get
" 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. "
Linus Torvalds
Feeling
Fame
Me
" I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. "
Linus Torvalds
Been
Me
University
" I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project. "
Linus Torvalds
Doing
Great
Myself
" Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. "
Linus Torvalds
Because
Hard
Before
" I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. "
Linus Torvalds
Open
Software
Right
" What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. "
Linus Torvalds
People
Interesting
Used
" Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral. "
Linus Torvalds
Avoid
Where
Political
" 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. "
Linus Torvalds
Important
People
Nothing
" An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing. "
Linus Torvalds
Interesting
People
Want
" I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. "
Linus Torvalds
Thinking
Lawyers
Person
" In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. "
Linus Torvalds
Company
Important
The Most Important
" Any program is only as good as it is useful. "
Linus Torvalds
Good
Only
Program
" I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. "
Linus Torvalds
I Can
Way
Try
" My name is Linus, and I am your God. "
Linus Torvalds
Your
Name
I Am
" Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. "
Linus Torvalds
Even
Linux
Made
" 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. "
Linus Torvalds
Boring
Doing
Personality
" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "
Linus Torvalds
Paid
Get
Indirectly
" I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself. "
Linus Torvalds
Care
Worry
Technology
" 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 possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal. "
Linus Torvalds
Effort
Possible
Love
" Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. "
Linus Torvalds
Ability
Doing
Done
" I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. "
Linus Torvalds
Just Because
Unexpected
Random
" Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. "
Linus Torvalds
Answer
Sometimes
Questions
" I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. "
Linus Torvalds
Been
Vendors
Red
" There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach. "
Linus Torvalds
More
People
Software
" To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. "
Linus Torvalds
You
Just
Side
" 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. "
Linus Torvalds
You
Cold
Remember
" Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. "
Linus Torvalds
Thinking
You
Want
" I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. "
Linus Torvalds
Linux
Binary
Pay