Linux famous quotes

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#Linux #Performances

Linux is a leprosy; … This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#Leprosy #Linux

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

#Linux #Standards

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.
-- Darl McBride

#Lines #Today #Linux

Linux doesn't have IP roots.
-- Darl McBride

#Roots #Linux

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

#Talking #Showing Up #Linux

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

#Taken #Secret #Linux

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
-- Darl McBride

#Heritage #Linux #Claims

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

#Trying #Linux #Graduates

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

#Labs #Rooms #Linux

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

#Years #Research #Linux

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

#Senior #Today #Linux

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

#Years #Research #Linux

Linux is only free if your time has no value.
-- Jamie Zawinski

#Linux #Values

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

#Thinking #Linux #Tools

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

#Running #Use #Linux

We can build a better product than Linux,
-- Jim Allchin

#Linux

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
-- Kenneth P. Thompson

#Thinking #Movement #Linux

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

#Linux #Use #Care

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

#Doe #Linux #Infinite

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

#Linux #Just Being #Geek

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

#Linux #Unexpected #Refrigerators

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
-- Linus Torvalds

#Linux #Operating Systems

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

#Innovation #Proud #Linux

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Issues #Linux #Use

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
-- Linus Torvalds

#People #Way #Linux

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

#Linux

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

#Facts #Momentum #Linux

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

#Linux

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
-- Richard Stallman

#Littles #Androids #Linux

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

#Games #Linux #Return

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

#Cancer #Intellectual #Linux

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Life #People #Linux

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

#Running #Quality #Linux

I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done.
-- Timothee Besset

#Done #Linux

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.
-- Timothee Besset

#Quality #Matter #Linux

Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.
-- Bruce Perens

#Vcr #Want #Linux

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

#People #World #Linux

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

#Views #Microsoft #Linux