5 Linus Torvalds Quotes on Quality

Linus Torvalds quotes on quality

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

31. 'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect.

44. My personal opinion of Mach is not very high. Frankly, it's a piece of crap. It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and even managed to make up a few of its own.

52. ...even if the Hurd didn't depend on Linux code (and as far as I know, it does, but since I think they have their design heads firmly up their *sses anyway with that whole microkernel thing, I've never felt it was worth my time even looking at their code), I don't believe a religiously motivated development community can ever generate as good code except by pure chance.

76. Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.