6 Linus Torvalds Quotes on Collaboration

Linus Torvalds quotes on collaboration

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

19. 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.

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

46. 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.

55. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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