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"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."
"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."
"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."
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"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out."
"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day."
"When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver."
"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."
"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
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