Linus Torvalds Quotes

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.