Linus Torvalds Quotes About Technology
-
The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.
→ -
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
→ -
I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.
→ -
There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.
→ -
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
→ -
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
→ -
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
→ -
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
→ -
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.
→ -
I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.
→ -
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
→
Related Authors
-
Steve Jobs Entrepreneur -
Bill Gates Investor -
Guido van Rossum Computer programmer -
Ken Thompson Computer Designer -
Steve Wozniak Inventor -
Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist -
Donald Knuth Computer Scientist -
Dennis Ritchie Computer Scientist -
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Computer Scientist -
Vinton Cerf Engineer -
Larry Page Business magnate -
Larry Wall Programmer -
Richard Stallman Activist -
Sergey Brin Computer Scientist -
Bjarne Stroustrup Scientist -
Brian Kernighan Computer Scientist -
James Gosling Computer Scientist -
Mark Shuttleworth Entrepreneur -
Eric S. Raymond Programmer -
Linus Pauling Chemist