In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. Linus Torvalds More Quotes by Linus Torvalds More Quotes From Linus Torvalds A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows Linus Torvalds computer useless air Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. Linus Torvalds program work fun Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Linus Torvalds coders linux programming Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. Linus Torvalds microsoft technology evil Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. Linus Torvalds theory practice sometimes I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended. Linus Torvalds offending people thinking Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it. Linus Torvalds mirrors real men Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce. Linus Torvalds design listening people Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds programming intelligence done Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. Linus Torvalds data structure worry All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less Linus Torvalds operating-systems linux Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. Linus Torvalds programming bugs simplicity If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. Linus Torvalds linux microsoft mean The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly. Linus Torvalds groups design running I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it. Linus Torvalds technology perception people C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Linus Torvalds language use facts Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances. Linus Torvalds shooting funny science Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me. Linus Torvalds first-time perfect firsts Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing. Linus Torvalds timing wells worry Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain. Linus Torvalds live-by complaining can-do
