Linux Quotes

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

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.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

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.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

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.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.