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Dijkstra probably hates me.

— Linus Torvalds

More from Linus Torvalds

  1. I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves 'why?'. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got…
  2. I have an ego the size of a small planet
  3. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
  4. My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
  5. Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
  6. Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
  7. If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
  8. You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.

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