Linus Torvalds on Friendship
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Linus Torvalds, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Linus Torvalds and filed under "friendship" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Linus Torvalds, entry #197982: "Obsessing about things is important, and things really do matter, but if you can't let go of them, you'll end up crazy."
Attributed to Linus Torvalds, entry #195168: "Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally."
8 Quotes by Linus Torvalds on Friendship
"Obsessing about things is important, and things really do matter, but if you can't let go of them, you'll end up crazy."
"Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally."
"Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me."
"I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do."
"I think Leopard is a much better system … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary."
"Yeah. And as Linus once said: most numerical problems today in pure CPU cycles are actually 3D games. … It's not "incorrect" to say that you want the result faster, even if that result doesn't match your theoretical models."
"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."
"Yes, I realize that there's a lot of insane people out there. However, we generally don't do kernel design decisions based on them. But we can pat the insane users on the head and say "we won't guarantee it works, but if you eat your prozac, and don't bother us, go do your stupid things."