Your favorite Linus quotes?

[Zodiac]

"Wireless networking is pointless, so why bother making it work in Linux?"

-Linus

It's a joke... laugh.

[3rdalbum]

Has anyone else read the discussion Linux and one of the developers of Minnix had on Usenet back in the early 90s?

This Minnix guy said some priceless things which I will paraphrase:

"In a few years time, we'll all be using Sun Sparcs"
"Linux has ridiculously bloated system requirements"
"You would have failed any operating-system-programming course, because Linux can't be ported to other platforms and it uses a monolithic kernel when everyone knows that microkernels have better performance".

[loell]

Cry me a river, Jeff.
linus Trovald

[lapsey]

"Linux has ridiculously bloated system requirements"
"You would have failed any operating-system-programming course, because Linux can't be ported to other platforms and it uses a monolithic kernel when everyone knows that microkernels have better performance".

speaking as a 286 owner, I say he's right (yes, minix is on there)

[mkw87]

My favorite was a mailing list where he spoke about slashdot (http://slashdot.org) being a giant wanking fest.

"Gaah. I don’t tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own “insightful?" comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not."

Source

[brentoboy]

"I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves 'why?'. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix." (1991)

"Portability is for people who cannot write new programs." (1992)


"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." (2001)

"They [SCO] are smoking crack." (2003)
"I allege that SCO is full of it." (2003)

"it's all part of the plan for world domination."


"It was _such_ a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful." (April 14, 2005)

When asked why he called the new software, "git," British slang meaning "a rotten person," he said. 'I'm an egotistical bastard, so I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.'"


"I like colorized diffs, but let's face it, those particular color choices will make most people decide to pick out their eyes with a fondue fork. And that's not good. Digging in your eye-sockets with a fondue fork is strictly considered to be bad for your health, and seven out of nine optometrists are dead set against the practice. So in order to avoid a lot of blind git users, please apply this patch. "


sources: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds