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"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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"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free.""
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"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
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"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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"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."
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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
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"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."
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"You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior."
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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."
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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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"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
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