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Linus Torvalds
“This probably also means that if and when we ever meet another intelligent life form in this universe, their first words are not likely to be "Take me to our leader." They're more likely to say "Party on, dude!”
Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Linus Torvalds
“Humans are destined to be party animals, and technology will follow.”
Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Linus Torvalds
“The theory behind open source is simple. In the case of an operating system, the source code-the programming instructions underlying the system-is free. Anyone can improve it, change it, exploit it. But those improvements, changes, and exploitations have to be made freely available. Think Zen. The project belongs to no one and to everyone. When a project is opened up, there is rapid and continual improvement. With teams of contributors working in parallel, the results can happen far more speedily and success­ fully than if the work were being conducted behind closed doors.”
Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Phil Knight
“So much to do. So much to learn. So much I don’t know about my own life.”
Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Linus Torvalds
“A lot of people believe in working long days and doing dou­ble, triple, or even quadruple shifts. I'm not one of them. Neither Transmeta nor Linux has ever gotten in the way of a good night's sleep. In fact, if you want to know the honest truth, I'm a firm believer in sleep. Some people think that's just being lazy, but I want to throw my pillow at them. I have a perfectly good excuse, and I'm standing by it: You may lose a few hours of your produc­tive daytime if you sleep, oh, say, ten hours a day, but those few hours when you are awake you're alert, and your brain functions on all six cylinders. Or four, or whatever.”
Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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