Most people feel Linus Torvalds is the world's greatest computer programmer/hacker. So it’s not surprising that many of his loyal fans have applauded him and have recited stories about his great accomplishments. |
As cited on junauza.com, here are some mythical and rather humorous facts about Linus Torvalds:
1- His initial words were syscalls.
2- His DNA is in binary.
3- His first written program had artificial intelligence.
4- He already has Linux 3.0 and is just keeping it to himself for creating suspense.
5- He can touch MC Hammer.
6- He doesn't worry about Microsoft patent crap, he simply does "sudo mv /tmp/ms /dev/null".
7- He can perform infinite loop in five seconds... in his head.
8- He can install Gentoo in a week.
9- He can halt a BSOD... on Vista 64-bit.
10- He doesn't require anti-virus software. Virii need anti-Linus software.
11- He doesn't wear glasses any longer, not due to the fact that he has had a laser eye surgery, but as he finally got his xorg.conf properly configured in his head.
12- He wrote the whole kernel in binary and reverse engineered it to C code for others benefit.
13- He can play 3D games in his head by interpreting the source code in real-time.
14- He takes a single look at your desktop and knows which porn sites you visited over the past decade.
15- His computer's clock isn't synchronized with the world but the world synchronizes with Linus Torvalds's clock.
16- He surfs the web using nothing but netcat.
17- He has developed warp drive, sun destroying bombs and a ray that can teleport him a new sausage each day before he drinks his morning beer.
18- He doesn't push the flush toilet button, brush his teeth, shower or clean his house; he simply says, "make clean".
19- He can defragment an NTFS partition using hand.
20- He doesn't debug and programs are always perfect.
21- He is real, unless declared Integer.
22- He can delete the universe by typing rm -rf /.
23- He does not sleep; he hacks.
24- His favorite joke is HURD.
25- He didn't design Linux to run on the 386.