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"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older."

"The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy."

"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."

"With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy."
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"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."

"The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return."

"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."

"Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many."

"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."

"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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