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All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
Linus Torvalds
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Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
Dennis Ritchie
4.
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
Jamie Zawinski
5.
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
Linus Torvalds
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
Linus Torvalds
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'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
10.
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
Seymour Cray
11.
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
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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
Bill Gates
13.
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
Steve Wozniak
14.
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
Linus Torvalds
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.
Ian Stewart
16.
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.
Linus Torvalds
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There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
Richard Stallman
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I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
Ken Thompson
20.
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
21.
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.
John Carmack
22.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
Steve Ballmer
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
Nat Friedman
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I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.
Linus Torvalds
25.
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
26.
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
Linus Torvalds
27.
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
Linus Torvalds
28.
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds
29.
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds
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Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.
Bill Hayden
31.
Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
Labs.
Dennis Ritchie
32.
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
Linus Torvalds
33.
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
Linus Torvalds
34.
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
Linus Torvalds
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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
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I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
Linus Torvalds
38.
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
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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
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Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them
Dean Stockwell
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Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Jaron Lanier
42.
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.
Linus Torvalds
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I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.
Linus Torvalds
44.
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.
Bill Gates
45.
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".
Linus Torvalds
46.
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.
Ryan C. Gordon
47.
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.
Darl McBride
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We can build a better product than Linux.
Jim Allchin
49.
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.
Timothee Besset
50.
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.
Linus Torvalds