Quote #11

The main reason there are no raw devices [in Linux] is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea.

More from Linus Torvalds

  1. An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
  2. 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 ang…
  3. You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.
  4. Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
  5. If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
  6. :the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it.
  7. Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
  8. See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)

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