Quotes by Linus Torvalds

"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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"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."

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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."

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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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"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."

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"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."

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