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" 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
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" Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. "
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" I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. "
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" Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. "
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" Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. "
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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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" Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. "
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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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" The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. "
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" My name is Linus, and I am your God. "
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" Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. "
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" I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. "
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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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" Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. "
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" Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. "
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" 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. "
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" By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them. "
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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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" I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. "
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" The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. "
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" No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. "
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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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" Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. "
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" I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. "
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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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" 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. "
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