"Software is like sex: It's better when it's free."

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Source : Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference,

Linus Torvalds

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“One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.”
“That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.”
“Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.”

Source : Vimala Thakar (1986). “Blossoms of Friendship”, p.22, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
“I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.”
“I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”
“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.”
“Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.”

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