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Linus Torvalds Quotes

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: finnish
Birth: December 28, 1969

Topics

City Cold Bad Nice Only Very

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

Think Three Why Over Years Goofy

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

Change Good Book Think Pressure You

When I'm traveling, I won't miss an opportunity to try great pasta.

Opportunity Great Pasta Try Miss

Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Police February Revolution Never

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.

People Moving You Wander Movement

'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible.

Myself Poetry Me Saying Language

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Science Decide Away Cannot Tried

It feels good that people believe in my ability, but you've just got to stay focused, keep your feet on the ground, and do the job and do the hard work in the gym.

Work Hard Work Good Job People Feet

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Me Places Poor Where Been Those

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted.

Man Me Door Bag Chair Down

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.

Clouds Mind Thought You Lose Grass

I love the Ritz.

Aretha Franklin

Love Ritz I Love

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