Linus Torvalds on Art
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Linus Torvalds, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Linus Torvalds, entry #44748: "I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants."
Attributed to Linus Torvalds, entry #27871: "I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination."
6 Quotes by Linus Torvalds on Art
"I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants."
"I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination."
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened."
"version 3 was not a good "here we give you version 2" and then we try to sneak in this new rules and try force everyone to upgrade; that was the part I disliked. The FSF did really sneaky stuff, downright immoral in my opinion."
"So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside."
"Lookie here, your compiler does some absolutely insane things with the spilling, including spilling a *constant*. For chrissake, that compiler shouldn't have been allowed to graduate from kindergarten. We're talking "sloth that was dropped on the head as a baby" level retardation levels here."