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Linus Torvalds Quotes

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

Linus Torvalds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Random Unexpected Just Because Places

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Maya Lin

Thought Want Artists Necessary Some

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.

John Lithgow

Work Good Easy You Acting Hard

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

Robert H. Schuller

Start Church Mission Difference

Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circus around them. They're so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles.

Stephen Frears

Day Mountains Tough You Go Circus

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

Rutger Hauer

People Me Stupid World You Bad

I've done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn't have my parents footing the bill when I moved to New York. I moved here with, like, 300 bucks. I was a bike messenger. I was a waiter. I was a bartender. I worked in a consignment shop for high-end designers.

Michael Kelly

Bike New York Parents You New Done

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Michael Leunig

Story Environment You Know Important

What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.

Lord Robertson

Children Time School Remember Will

I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.

Jay-Z

Change Business Think Industry

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

Joseph Parker

Guitar Piano Played Since

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

Douglas Hofstadter

Common Sense More Common Sense Get

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that... it's not my story.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

People Me Story Never Call Started