Linus Torvalds Real Quotations

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product,

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.