Linus Torvalds Quotes on Quality
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect.
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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.
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...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.
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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.