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• When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.

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  Crazy, Voice, Needs

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• The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

  Linus Torvalds

  Disease, Syndromes

  "Newsmaker: Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic" by Stephen Shankland, news.cnet.com, December 21, 2004.

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• See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

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  Linux, Coders, Sneaky

  Linux newsgroup post, July 05, 1996.

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• Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.

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  Running, Moving, Circles

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• If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.

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  Somewhere Else, Kind, Should

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• Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

  Linus Torvalds

  Keys, Eight, Keyboards

  Google+ blog, plus.google.com. June 23, 2013.

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• Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

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  Religious, Appreciation, Atheist

  Interview with Marjorie Richardson, www.linuxjournal.com. November 1, 1999.

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• I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

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  Way, Projects, Persons

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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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  Lying, Home, Ties

  "King Of Geeks Linus Torvalds Defends His Right To Code In His Bathrobe And Curse At Other Developers". www.forbes.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

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  Computer, Economy, Worst

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• I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Guarantees That, Community

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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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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  Fashion, White, Design

  Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.

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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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  Worry, Linux, Economy

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

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  Thinking, Microsoft, Tactics

  Source: www.ibiblio.org

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• I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

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  Thinking, Intellectual, Different

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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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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  Ideas, Today, Incredibles

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

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  Confusion, Confusing, Complicated

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• Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.

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  Sex, Software

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• The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.

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  Thinking, Keys, People

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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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  Technology, Evil, Microsoft

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 9-28-03: QUESTIONS FOR LINUS TORVALDS; The Sharer". Interview with David Diamond, www.nytimes.com. September 28, 2003.

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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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  Thinking, Doe, Way

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• Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

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  Looks, Way, Firsts

  "10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds". www.linuxfoundation.org. April 6, 2015.

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• The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

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  Ideas, Kernel, One Thing

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• Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

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  Real, Men, Mirrors

  Linux-kernel Mailing List, www.webcitation.org. July 20, 1996.

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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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  Linux, Authority, Notion

  "Leader of the Free World" by Gary Rivlin, www.wired.com. November 01, 2003.

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