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Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds

(1969–) · Finnish/American Software Engineer

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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.
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.