You're twelve, thirteen, fourteen, whatever. Other kids are out playing soccer. Your grandfather's computer is more interesting. His machine is its own world, where logic runs. (查看原文)
Embarrassed was how I felt when, after I have saved most of the money of my first watch, Mom wanted me to ask my grandfather for the money to pay for the rest. (查看原文)
And he didn't have any great desire to circulate among the rich and powerful. I asked him about what he would like to say to Bill Gates, but he wasn't at least be interested in even meeting the guy. "There wouldn't be much of the connection point," he reasoned, "I'm completely uninterested in the thing that he's the best in the world at. And he's not interested in the thing that may be I'm the best in the world at. I couldn't give him advice in business, and he couldn't give me advice in technology." (查看原文)
My high school wasn't one of those institutions for exceptionally smart or ambitious kids, which are common in most U.S. cities. Such schools are pretty much against how Finland works. Finnish schools don't separate out good students - or the losers, for that matter. (查看原文)
(谈到服兵役)Come to think of it, I really hated it when I was there. But it was one of those things: After it was over it immediately became a wonderful experience. (查看原文)
In Finland, it's relatively common for people to give endowments(捐赠) to schools, even the public elementary schools. So, starting in forth grade, money gets distributed to students based on whatever the person setting up the fund had in mind. I remember one of the endowments in my school went to the best-liked kid in the class. (查看原文)
(Helsinki大学开设UNIX课程时)But he(老师) would read the text only one chapter ahead of the students, whereas the students were sometimes skipping ahead by three chapters. (查看原文)
It's the same thing with languages. The English language has twenty-six letters and you can build up everything from those letters. Or you can have the Chinese language, in which you have one letter for every single thing you can think of. (查看原文)
This, by the way, is also how physics works. You try and find the fundamental rules that are supposed to be fairly simple. The complexity comes from the many incredible interactions you get from those simple rules, not from any inherent complexity of the rules themselves. (查看原文)
So I began a project to create my own terminal emulation program. I didn't want to do the project under Minix, but instead to do it at the bare hardware level. This terminal emulation project would also be great opportunity to learn how the 386 hardware worked. As I mentioned, it was winter in Helsinki. I had a study computer. The most important part of the project was just finger out what this machine did and have fun with it. (查看原文)
He tells me he never has. Fathers and sons are unique individuals, he reasons, explaining that the act of delving into Linus's passion would be akin to "invaliding his soul." (查看原文)
There is talk about family biking/ camping vacation to Sweden. Sleeping on the overnight ferry. Having Sara's bicycle stolen the first day. Spending the budget on a new bicycle. Erecting the tent on a cliff. Leaving Linus inside to read all day while mother and daughter swam and fished. And then, after a powerful windstorm blew in, realizing that the only thing preventing the tent from being whisked into the Baltic Sea was Linus, who had been sleeping inside, oblivious to the extreme change in weather. (查看原文)
And, yes, I undoubtedly would have approached the whole no-money thing a lot differently if I had not been brought up under the influence of a diehard academic grandfather and a diehard communist father. (查看原文)
And there are nagging fears that companies in place like China won't honor the GPL. Practically nothing in there legal system prevents them from breaking the copyright, and in real sense it's not worth the trouble to go after people who would try to do something illegal. (查看原文)
I thought this was stupid. Yes, it makes every single piece simple. But the interactions make it far more complex than it would be if many of the services were included in the kernel itself, as they are in Linux. (查看原文)
作者: Linus Torvalds, David Diamond 副标题: Linux之父林纳斯自传 原作名: Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary isbn: 7115361649 书名: 只是为了好玩 页数: 255 出品方: 图灵教育 译者:陈少芸 定价: 49.00 元 出版社: 人民邮电出版社 出版年: 2014-7 装帧: 平装
