Citações de Linus Torvalds (criador do Kernel Linux)

Algumas citações do criador do Kernel Linux, o Ditador Benevolente, Linus Torvalds!!!

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The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes

1. “Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.”

2. “Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”

3. “My name is Linus, and I am your God.”

4. “See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.”

5. “The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.”

6. “Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.”

7. “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”

8. “When you say, ‘I wrote a program that crashed Windows,’ people just stare at you blankly and say, ‘Hey, I got those with the system, for free.’”

9. “I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.”

10. “Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals.”

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Citações

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and
jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing
thousands and pillaging the very hills?": Kahlil Gibran

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"Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the
government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different
ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside
there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their
own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a
few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror": Niccolo
Machiavelli, The Prince

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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it": Mohandas
Gandhi

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"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is
neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave":
John James Ingalls