Линус Торвальдс: Цитаты на английском языке

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“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 an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.”

Linus Torvalds

Post, comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-06-09, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cola-liw-834355743-12037-0%40liw.clinet.fi, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99

“Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just "ignore the bait", but … time for some serious flamefesting!”

Linus Torvalds

comp.os.minix: LINUX is obsolete, 1992-01-29, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-31 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/9f3c7c165aacc83f?dmode=source, <br class="br">1990s, 1991-94

“Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.”

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds - Google+, Torvalds, Linus, 2013-06-23, 2013-10-12 https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/e4vnEUdB5kn, <br class="br">2010s, 2013

“I was 21 at the time, so I was young, but I had already programmed for half my life, basically. And every project before that had been completely personal and it was a revelation when people just started commenting, started giving feedback on your code. And even before they started giving code back, that was, I think, one of the big moments where I said, "I love other people!"”

Linus Torvalds

Don&#x27;t get me wrong -- I&#x27;m actually not a people person. <br class="br"> Torvalds, Linus, 2016-02-17, &lt;nowiki&gt;Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux&lt;/nowiki&gt;, 2016-04-08 http://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux/, <br class="br">2010s, 2016

“Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?”

Linus Torvalds

Linus to the hardware manufacturers that refuse to release the specifications of their hardware so they could operate with the Linux kernel. <br class="br"> Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux, 2007-08-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-08-22, 2007-08-25, http://web.archive.org/web/1/apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about http://apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about, <br class="br">2000s, 2007

“Lookie here, your compiler does some absolutely insane things with the spilling, including spilling a *constant*. For chrissake, that compiler shouldn't have been allowed to graduate from kindergarten. We're talking "sloth that was dropped on the head as a baby" level retardation levels here.”

Linus Torvalds

&lt;nowiki&gt;LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc&lt;/nowiki&gt;, Torvalds, Linus, 2014-07-24, 2014-08-10 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/24/584, <br class="br">2010s, 2014

“Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.”

Linus Torvalds

Discussing a &quot;fix&quot; in the memcpy() that broke flash, 2010-11-30, Bugzilla, Red Hat, Torvalds, Linus https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129, <br class="br">2010s, 2010

“It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style”

Linus Torvalds

About the C programming language, vs. C++ <br class="br"> Re: RFC Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library., 7 Sep 2007, gmane.comp.version-control.git, 12 Sep 2012 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57957, <br class="br">2000s, 2007

“Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the gall to talk about "Unix design" and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!”

Linus Torvalds

Message, Git mailing list, 2008-12-17, Gmane, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-18 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103400, <br class="br">2000s, 2008

“You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.”

Linus Torvalds

Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation, 2011-08-13, 1995 https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99

“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.”

Linus Torvalds

Post to comp.os.minix newsgroup, 1992-01-29, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1992Jan29.231426.20469%40klaava.Helsinki.FI, According to Torvalds, this was &quot;tongue in cheek&quot; (Ibid.) <br class="br">1990s, 1991-94

“It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …”

Linus Torvalds

Announcement for Linux 1.3.27, 1995-11-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/alpha/9509.1/0006.html, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99