Linus Torvalds Quotes


If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.


Citations

Torvalds, Linus. "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on Git." Google Tech Talks, 3 May 2007.

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Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds
  • Born: December 28, 1969
  • Nationality: Finnish, American
  • Profession: Software Engineer

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.