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

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Source : Message to Linux kernel mailing list, lkml.org. March 25, 2009.

Linus Torvalds

#Practice Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Theory Quotes

“Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.”
“My friends are a huge part of my inspiration.”
“Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.”
“Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.”
“On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.”
“Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.”
“Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.”

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