Linus Torvalds Quotes

"Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.

Pet peeve of the day: all the people talking about how ChatGPT is not “conscious” and how it does not “understand” what it is saying, but just putting likely-sounding words together into likely-sounding sentences. Extra bonus points for using an example of a math problem as a way to show how these AI chat-bots talk about things they don’t really understand. The irony. The lack of self-awareness. It burns.

Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

And no, I am not looking for yes-men, and I like it when you call me out on my bullshit. I say some stupid things at times, there needs to be people who just stand up to me and tell me I'm full of shit.

Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU Emacs would never make a good program.

It's memorial day tomorrow here in the US, but like the USPS, "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" - nor memorial day - stops the merge window.

Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

So LSM stays in. No ifs, buts, maybes or anything else. When I see the security people making sane arguments and agreeing on something, that will change. Quite frankly, I expect hell to freeze over before that happens, and pigs will be nesting in trees. But hey, I can hope.