Linus Torvalds Quotes on Coding

6 quotes

  1. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

  2. You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.

  3. Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

  4. I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.

  5. C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

  6. C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

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