Linus Torvalds Quotes

If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.

EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).

Hey, that's not a bug, that's a FEATURE! You know what the most complex piece of engineering known to man in the whole solar system is? Guess what – it's not Linux, it's not Solaris, and it's not your car. It's you. And me. And think about how you and me actually came about – not through any complex design. Right. "Sheer luck". Well, sheer luck, AND:

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep.

Dijkstra probably hates me.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

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.)

It’s Caturday. Minky is no longer with us, but this is probably my favorite picture of her.

I like colorized diffs, but let's face it, those particular color choices will make most people decide to pick out their eyes with a fondue fork.

This is my reality. I am not an emotionally empathetic kind of person and that probably doesn't come as a big surprise to anybody. Least of all me. The fact that I then misread people and don't realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good. This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me. I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

Your argument is shit.

Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.