Linus Torvalds Quotes

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

Nothing is black or white.

A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

The color of truth is gray.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

the truth is often a mixed message

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

For nothing was simply one thing.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?