"In my opinion, shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software (no sources) with the worst of free software (no finishing touches). I simply do not believe in the shareware market at all."
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"Somebody finds the problem, and somebody else understands it. And I'll go on record as saying that finding it is the bigger challenge."
- Linus Torvalds
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"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
- Linus Torvalds
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"C++ is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C."
- Linus Torvalds
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"If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system."
- Linus Torvalds
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