"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

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Source : Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.

Linus Torvalds

#Programming Quotes #Show Me Quotes #Shows Quotes

“There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.”
“The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!”
“A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.”
“But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.”
“Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.3, 谷月社
“I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.”
“When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.”
“To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.”

Source : "Cheech And Chong Reunite, At Long Last". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 28, 2010.

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