Quote #17
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*'.
More from Linus Torvalds
- Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
- If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.
- 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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- Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
- Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
- I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is tha…