Linus Torvalds Quotes

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

There's no certainty in the law.

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.

The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

There are always loose ends in real life.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.