Linux Quotes
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Linux Quotes & Sayings
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I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
— Linus Torvalds
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
— Jamie Zawinski
That's why Linux and Wikipedia and Firefox work.
— Daniel H. Pink
I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
— Kenneth P. Thompson
A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
— Eric S. Raymond
Unix, BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Windows are Monozukuri.
— Mehmet Kececi
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
— Linus Torvalds
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
— Barton Gellman
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
— Jamie Zawinski
We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.
— Darl McBride
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
— Jamie Zawinski
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
— Jamie Zawinski
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.
— Linus Torvalds
Linux doesn't have IP roots.
— Darl McBride
Everyone has a religion, whether they admit it or not. For some it's Catholicism; for others, Vegetarianism or Elvis or Linux/Macintosh/Windows.
— Guy Consolmagno
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
— Steve Ballmer
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
— Linus Torvalds
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
— Linus Torvalds
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
— Linus Torvalds
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.
— Darl McBride
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
— Ken Thompson
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
— Linus Torvalds
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.
— Theo De Raadt
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
— Linus Torvalds
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
— Darl McBride
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
— Linus Torvalds
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
— Linus Torvalds
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.
— Timothee Besset
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
— Linus Torvalds
We can build a better product than Linux,
— Jim Allchin
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
— Linus Torvalds
found on other Unix-like systems. The design is actually specified in a published standard called the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
— William E. Shotts Jr.
I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.
— Linus Torvalds
I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done.
— Timothee Besset
OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
— Linus Torvalds
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
— Richard Stallman
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
— Bill Gates
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
— Linus Torvalds
Linux is a leprosy; ... This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.
— Scott Simpson
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
— Linus Torvalds
Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.
— Theo De Raadt
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them
— Dean Stockwell
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
— Linus Torvalds
We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
— Linus Torvalds
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
— Jaron Lanier
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
— Linus Torvalds
The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.
— Ryan C. Gordon
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Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.
— David "Doc" Searls
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
— Linus Torvalds
What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
— Linus Torvalds
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
— Linus Torvalds
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
— Linus Torvalds
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
— Miguel De Icaza
I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven!
— Steve Ballmer
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
— Nicholas Negroponte
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
— Steve Wozniak
