- "Dijkstra probably hates me"
- (in kernel/sched.c)
- "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it"
(somewhere in a posting) - "I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.."
(in response to a bug report) - "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."
(source unknown) - "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." (NewYork Times interview)
- "An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
(source unknown) - "Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope. Does somebody know what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke."
(taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux) - "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare atyou blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*"
(source unknown) - "Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I should use Linux over BSD? No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical."
(Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux) - "The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF being the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate". I don't think that it's something people have to worry about right now - I don't see it happening in the near future. I enjoy doing linux, even though it does mean some work, and I haven't gotten any complaints (some almost timid reminders about a patch I have forgotten or ignored, but nothing negative so far). Don't take the above to mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains: I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is reading this over my shoulder commented that "thick-HEADED is closer to the truth") enough to take some abuse. If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing linux the day ast ridiculed me on c.o.minix. What I mean is just that while linux has been my baby so far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want to make something better of it."
(source unknown)
Friday, October 12, 2007
Ten Funny Quotes By Linus Torvalds
Автор Oleg Smetanin на 12:58 AM
Ярлыки: Linus Torvalds, linux
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
72 comments:
Post a Comment