Linus Torvalds Quotes

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

Linus Torvalds

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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

Angela Duckworth

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I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

Amy J. Berg

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The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges.

Stephanie Coontz

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I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him.

Robert Crais

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Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.

Mo Ibrahim

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President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

Mitt Romney

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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

Lorna Luft

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I think all food except for maybe pizza and Mexican food is better in Japan.

Lou Barlow

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There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

Christopher Walken

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It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

Chrissy Teigen

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In a movie that's sort of a single monster movie, like 'Jaws,' once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you're able to start working on ways to take down the threat.

Colin Trevorrow

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'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.

Anthony Kennedy

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