Linus Torvalds Quotes on Collaboration

6 quotes

  1. An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

  2. Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well.

  3. The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

  4. You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.

  5. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

  6. Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.

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