Frases célebres de Linus Torvalds
Fuente: Entrevista en 2001 http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=161 ( http://www.todo-linux.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=318 traducción al español)
Linus Torvalds: Frases en inglés
“Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.”
Discussing a "fix" in the memcpy() that broke flash, 2010-11-30, Bugzilla, Red Hat, Torvalds, Linus https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129,
2010s, 2010
Linus & the Lunatics, Part II, 2003-11-25, 2006-08-28 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7279,
2000s, 2000-04
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003580.html
2010s, 2017
“It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style”
About the C programming language, vs. C++
Re: RFC Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library., 7 Sep 2007, gmane.comp.version-control.git, 12 Sep 2012 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57957,
2000s, 2007
Message, Git mailing list, 2008-12-17, Gmane, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-18 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103400,
2000s, 2008
“You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.”
Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation, 2011-08-13, 1995 https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst,
1990s, 1995-99
Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2005-03-02, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-12-11 http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/2/247,
2000s, 2005
“Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.”
Post to comp.os.minix newsgroup, 1992-01-29, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1992Jan29.231426.20469%40klaava.Helsinki.FI, According to Torvalds, this was "tongue in cheek" (Ibid.)
1990s, 1991-94
Kernel development, 2007, Torvalds, Linus http://lwn.net/Articles/396997/,.
2000s, 2007
Announcement for Linux 1.3.27, 1995-11-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/alpha/9509.1/0006.html,
1990s, 1995-99
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo
DebConf 14: Q&A with Linus Torvalds
DebConf 2014 Portland
Youtube/Google
14min35
2014
Daniel Gillmore, Ana Guerrerero López.
2010s, 2014
Attributed
Fuente: on Desktop_architects: Drivers – below the OS, Fri Aug 3 18:12:57 PDT 2007 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-August/002446.html.
Message to GCC mailing list, 2001-07-30, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-10-15 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-07/msg02084.html,
Torvalds did not originate this quote. It is a reference from David Braben following the release of Elite, and is itself a rephrasing of a reference to relative worth of game coding.
2000s, 2000-04
“EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).”
the first one being ACPI Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2006-07-24, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-05-28 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/25/23,
2000s, 2006
“Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.”
The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview, Yamagata, Hiroo, 1997‐11‐11, 2019-05-06 https://tech-insider.org/linux/research/1997/0920.html,
1990s, 1995-99
Message, linux-kernel mailing list, 1996-10-17, IU, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9610.2/0030.html,
1990s, 1995-99
“Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.”
Linus vs. Bram Cohen, 2005-04-27, Torvalds, Linus, 2013-10-03 http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2197.html,
2000s, 2005
Linux Licensing, Forbes, 2006-03-09, Lyons, Daniel, 2006-08-28 http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/03/09/torvalds-linux-licensing-cz_dl_0309torvalds1.html,
2000s, 2006
“Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.”
Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List, 2003-09-23, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-06-26, http://web.archive.org/20050226095919/kerneltrap.org/node/901, 2005-02-26 http://kerneltrap.org/node/901,
Torvalds did not originate this quote http://shlomif.livejournal.com/39215.html, and there are earlier records for it. This is a variation on "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches," which is also attributed to George Bernard Shaw.
2000s, 2000-04
1990s, 1991-94
Re: fasync_remove_entry oops, Torvalds, Linus, 2013-03-07, 2013-05-01 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/7/529,
2010s, 2013
Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, 2007-09-06, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-09-22 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918,
2000s, 2007
Linus Torvalds - LKML, Torvalds, Linus, 2012-03-08, 2012-09-11 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495,
2010s, 2012
“I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.”
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2005-07-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg83284.html,
2000s, 2005
LKML
June 18, 2007
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/43013fe224f562e0.
2000s, 2007
“I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.”
Torvalds, Linus, 2015-01-15, <nowiki>Linus Torvalds on why he isn’t nice: "I don’t care about you"</nowiki>, 2015-01-20 http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/linus-torvalds-on-why-he-isnt-nice-i-dont-care-about-you/,
2010s, 2015
Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch, 2001-01-12, Torvalds, Linus, 2012-06-22 http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/1/12/24,
2000s, 2000-04
Message to Git mailing list, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-06-27, 2006-08-28 http://lwn.net/Articles/193245/,
2000s, 2006
Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2006-11-29, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-12-11 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/29/249,
2000s, 2006
Linus' blog: "13744 supplied", 2010-08-03, Torvalds, Linus, 2010-08-23 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/08/13744-supplied.html,
2010s, 2010
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