"Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain."

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Source : "Linux: Linus on Choice". Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List, web.archive.org. September 24, 2003.

Linus Torvalds

#Complaining Quotes #Live By Quotes

“What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?”
“I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.”
“King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.”
“Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.”
“After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being perhaps just the chooser of the laws. By the time God's role has been so diminished, he becomes a bit like a constitutional monarch, presiding ceremonially but not having any more work to do. That's a place for God if it makes people comfortable to keep God as the presider over the universe. I suppose that is satisfying for many.”

Source : "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.
“I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.”
“As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.”
“I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.”

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