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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.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, Today, Incredibles

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

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• I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

  Linus Torvalds

  Attitude, Writing, Care

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

  Linus Torvalds

  Stupid, Looks, Levels

  Linux-kernel newsgroup, May 25, 2002.

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• 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

  Writing, People, Interesting

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• It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Worry, Sides

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• I have an ego the size of a small planet.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ego, Size, Planets

  "Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists". Linux Weekly News, lwn.net. August 20, 2007.

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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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  Talking, Two, People

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

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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.

  Linus Torvalds

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Linus Torvalds

  Running, Moving, Circles

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• Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Want, Products

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

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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.

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  Thinking, Guarantees That, Community

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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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.

  Linus Torvalds

  Way, Projects, Persons

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• If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
  of different places, just write a Unix operating system.

  Linus Torvalds

  Writing, Different, World

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

  Linus Torvalds

  Computer, Economy, Worst

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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'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fashion, White, Design

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

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• When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.

  Linus Torvalds

  Knowing, Want, Kind

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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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 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.

  Linus Torvalds

  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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Linus Torvalds

  Looks, Way, Firsts

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

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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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