Linus Torvalds Quotes About Writing
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An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
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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.
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I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.
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I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
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