Linus Torvalds Facts - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 Feb 07
  

  Richard Hemmer

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  • Linus Torvalds facts

    
    

    Linus Torvalds facts are a series of humorous sayings regarding Linus Torvalds.

    
    

    Some of them include:

    
    
    
    
    1. Linus Torvalds edited this page.
    2. Linus Torvalds can program without a keyboard
    3. Since 1969, the year Linus Torvalds was born, software quality has increased 19.000 percent.
    4. The commonest definition of the word programmer is Linus Torvalds
    5. Linus Torvalds didn't learn from the University of Helsinki the University of Helsinki learned from Linus Torvalds.
    6. Linus Torvalds finished the Linux Kernel the day before he started on it.
    7. Linus Torvalds once developed a programming language so good that it makes python look like punch cards.
    8. Linus Torvalds doesn't need to boot.
    9. Linus Torvalds first written program had artificial intelligence.
    10. Linus Torvalds doesn't receive error messages.
    11. There is no theory of probability, just a list of events that Linus Torvalds allows to occur.
    12. Linus Torvalds doesn't use a monitor. He can read the video signals from a VGA cable with his finger.
    13. Linus Torvalds can write to ntfs.
    14. Linus Torvalds can install gentoo in under a day.
    15. When Linus Torvalds writes new software, he just makes punch cards with his teeth and feeds them into a reader.
    16. Linus Torvalds source codes compile themselves.
    17. When Linus Torvalds learned to program, the computer printed HELLO, WORLD by itself.
    18. Linus was considered as being old and stable at 24, but new and bleeding edge at 26
    19. Linus surfs the web using nothing but netcat
    20. Linus Torvalds can play 3D games in his head by interpreting the source code in real-time.
    21. Being touched by Linus can cure carpal tunnel syndrome. He does not cure RMS because he thinks it's funny to listen to RMS dictating code for the HURD.
    22. Linus Torvalds only wears glasses to make him seem more human.
    23. Linus Torvalds can fluently converse with setup wizard. They play basketball on Sundays.
    24. Linus Torvalds is the only known entity capable of uploading pure pleasure.
    25. Linus Torvalds can read your computer registry from any given point in the world, through any material.
    26. Linus Torvalds takes one look at your desktop and knows which porn sites you visited. In the last ten years.

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  Richard Hemmer on 2007-02-21
  Like the infamous Chuck Norris Facts, only with a lot more nerd and a lot less guns.
  

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