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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

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Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?

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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.

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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

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Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.

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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.

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EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).

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I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.

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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.

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Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.

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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style

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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...].

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I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep.

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In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.

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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

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You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.

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If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.

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"Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.

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We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.

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Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.

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Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

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If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

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Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

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