6 Linus Torvalds Quotes on Coding

Linus Torvalds quotes on coding

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

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

20. Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

39. 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.

59. 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.

60. 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.