Frasi di Linus Torvalds
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Linus Benedict Torvalds, , è un programmatore, informatico e blogger finlandese, conosciuto soprattutto per essere stato l'autore della prima versione del kernel Linux e coordinatore del progetto di sviluppo dello stesso. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Dicembre 1969   •   Altri nomi Линус торвалдс, लाइनस टोर्भाल्ड्स्
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Linus Torvalds frasi celebri

“Dittatore benevolo? No, sono solo pigro.”

Rivoluzionario per caso

“La ragione per cui gli hacker di Linux fanno qualcosa è perché la trovano molto stimolante, e a loro piace condividere questa cosa interessante con altri.”

Origine: Prologo, in Pekka Himanen, L'etica hacker e lo spirito dell'età dell'informazione, p. 12

“Ero un brutto bambino.”

Origine: Rivoluzionario per caso, p. 23

Linus Torvalds Frasi e Citazioni

“[Riferendosi al Kernel Linux] NON è portabile (usa il metodo 386 per lo switching tra i task etc.), e probabilmente non supporterà mai nient'altro che gli Hard disk AT, perché è tutto ciò che ho :-(.”

da comp.os.minix http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Aug25.205708.9541%40klaava.Helsinki.FI&output=gplain, 25 agosto 1991, ore 23.12:08 PST

“Il software è come il sesso, è meglio quando è libero/gratuito.”

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
Attributa a Torvalds alla conferenza della Free Software Foundation del 1996 ( video http://www.argentilinux.com.ar/doku.php/linux_videos_documentales:the_code_linux – time code: 48.44).
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Linus Torvalds: Frasi in inglese

“There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.”

[Kerstetter, Jim, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_05/b3868110_mz063.htm, Linus Torvalds: SCO Is 'Just Too Wrong', BusinessWeek Online, 2004-02-02, 2006-08-28]
2000s, 2000-04

“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."”

Post to comp.os.linux.development.apps newsgroup, 1995-03-08, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3jju43%24gc8%40klaava.helsinki.fi,
1990s, 1995-99

“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”

2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012

“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.”

Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2009-03-25, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-03-25 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/25/632,
2000s, 2009

“Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's my choice, dammit.”

Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2004-10-26, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/1101.html,
2000s, 2000-04

“Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.”

Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation, 2008-09-15, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-31 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/events/node/154,
2000s, 2008

“I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.”

Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds, 2009-06-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-06-26 http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html,
2000s, 2009

“If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.”

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

“If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.”

Attributed
Origine: Mike Linksvayer's 1993 interview http://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html in the first issue of Meta Magazine http://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/

“XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist.”

Linus Torvalds - Google+ (As a reply in the comments section), Torvalds, Linus, 2014-03-06, 2014-03-07 https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV,
2010s, 2014

“… the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself."”

That's it.
Post, linux.dev.kernel newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-10-16, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.961016155929.27735D-100000%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI,
1990s, 1995-99

“I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.”

Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2007-06-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2010-02-01 http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/29b45885cc7b11b3,
2000s, 2007

“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.”

Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux, 1998-10-01, CNN.com, Needle, David, 2016-03-08 http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/01/whylinux.idg/,
1990s, 1995-99

“An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.”

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

“And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?”

Redhat Bugzilla Bug 439858: swf mozilla plugin - no youtube, 2008-03-31 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439858,
2000s, 2008

“Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.”

Torvalds, 2011-03-01, pearls before swine, 2011-03-01 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-swine.html,
Torvalds contemplating his appearance at an Oscar Party.
2010s, 2011

“It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.”

Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week Interview, 2008-07-17, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-07-17 http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/linus-torvalds,-geek-of-the-week/,
2000s, 2008

“A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.”

Torvalds: Waiting To See Sun's Open Solaris, 2005-02-01, Rooney, Paula, CRN, 2006-08-28 http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/59300278/torvalds-waiting-to-see-suns-open-solaris.htm,
2000s, 2005

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