[General] The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes

[bashar abdullah]

Hah... yeah. Nice weird guy to listen to. That "I Am Your God" quote got him
in real serious trouble. As a matter of fact, being an atheist have
endangered the whole Linux brand name before when he ignored an email asking
"Do you believe in God?" No reply made the guy angry and he licensed the
name to piss him off it seems :)

People who like biography might be interested in Linux: Just for
fun<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0066620732/002-4309378-9828032?ie=UTF8&tag=bashastechnne-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0066620732>.
For geeks, it was an awful lot of fun for someone like me.

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Abdullah Al-Khulaifi <
abdullah.alkhulaifi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
>
> 2. "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
>
> 3. "My name is Linus, and I am your God."
>
> 4. "See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like
> Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
>
> 5. "The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One.
> 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
>
> 6. "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies
> the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin
> charging at them in excess of 100 mph."
>
> 7. "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work
> done."
>
> 8. "When you say, 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just
> stare at you blankly and say, 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'"
>
>
> 9. "I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What
> I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that
> the people involved in virtualization want it to have."
>
> 10. "Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your
> minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7.
> All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in
> between meals."
>
>
> Source:
> http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2008/06/the_10_best_lin.html
>
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