Linus Torvalds Quotes


I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.


Citations

Torvalds, Linus. Message to Linux Kernel Mailing List. 2008.

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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.