Linus Torvalds Quotes - Page 9

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• I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

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  People, Valleys, Found

  "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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• 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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  California, May, Lasts

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

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• 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.

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  Issues, Political, Trying

  "The Peacemaker" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. July 01, 2003.

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• A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

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  Self Worth, Views, Numbers

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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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  Issues, People, Judging

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• In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

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  Talking, People, Hackers

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• No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

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  Normal, Geek

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• I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

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  Technology, People, Worry

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• I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

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  People, Idiot, Claims

  Linux-kernel mailing list, April 21, 2006.

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• I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.

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  Impact, People, Doubt

  "Drivers - below the OS?". "Desktop_architects" section, lists.linux-foundation.org. August 03, 2007.

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• I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

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  Successful, Thinking, Linux

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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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  Personality, Boring, Found

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• Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

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  Choices, Would Be, Use

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• 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 pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

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  Jobs, Real, Want

  Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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• I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

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  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

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  Real, Trying, Development

  "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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• Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

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  Successful, Expectations, Challenges

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

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  Trying, Linux, Disaster

  "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 can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.

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  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.itworld.com

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• I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

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  Thinking, Evolution, Software

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

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  People, Sides, Source

  "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'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

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  Fun, Thinking, Impact

  "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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• 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.

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  Important, Different, Development

  "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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• Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

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  Mean, People, Goal

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• 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 available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

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  Years, Firsts, Half

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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