Linus Torvalds Quotes

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

You can do a lot of things with git, and many of the rules of what you *should* do are not so much technical limitations but are about what works well when working together with other people. So git is a very powerful set of tools.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.