Linus Torvalds Quotes
Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.
Torvalds, Linus, and David Diamond. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. HarperBusiness, 2001.
When journalists asked the ex-president to comment on the present disarray of the ruling party:
In American politics, the politicians who tend to have the most certain views of how America’s military should fight, are often those who have never served in the military themselves. The same is often true for newspaper editors and publishers. Few military officers in every war have expressed these sentiments publicly, but there are even fewer who have not thought it.
Written when he was the President of Harvard. Harvard and most of the established schools, though pretending to free inquiry in all academic matters, could not handle the abolition question. Princeton, was so racist that they not only were silent about slavery but did not admit a Black student until the Second World War.There were exceptions. Oberlin College was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad, and that institution alone graduated more than one third of all the Negro college graduates in America for the entire 19th century. In 1790, the top student of Brown University gave a commencement address that was a searing indictment of slavery {622025} despite the fact that the school’s namesake was an active slave trader.
In the modern media age, there is intense pressure on peace negotiators to reveal progress, problems, reactions, suggestions that are made by the parties to the peace talks. Rumors and premature public knowledge of the details of peace talks often can undermine and sometimes destroy and progress that was being made.
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the main developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS. He also created the distributed revision control system Git and the scuba dive logging and planning software Subsurface.
