Linux Quotes

To Judeans the cross was perhaps the most hated symbol of Roman rule. The deadly silhouette had scarred too many hilltops, signifying the most ignoble of deaths, a lingering torment that carried shame for all who witnessed it. And yet here it was, portraying a hope that transcended their worries and fears. Merely looking at this bit of carved wood lifted Linux beyond himself, carried upon a promise as strong as it was eternal. ~ Davis Bunn

A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring. ~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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

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

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

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

I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven! ~ Steve Ballmer

Linux provides programmers with everything they need: libraries, compilers, and debugging/development tools. These features are included in all standard Linux versions. ~ Andrew Johansen

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return. ~ Linus Torvalds

We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet. ~ Larry Ellison

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers. ~ James Surowiecki

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

I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me. ~ Linus Torvalds

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. ~ Miguel De Icaza

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One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product. ~ Linus Torvalds

graphical user interfaces make
easy tasks easy, while command line interfaces make difficult tasks possible ~ William E. Shotts Jr.

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

I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere. ~ Nat Friedman

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

The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster. ~ Darl McBride

That's why Linux and Wikipedia and Firefox work. ~ Daniel H. Pink

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. ~ Richard Stallman

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

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster. ~ 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

A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with. ~ Linus Torvalds

Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation. ~ Jamie Zawinski

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.' ~ Richard Stallman

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area. ~ Linus Torvalds

There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack. ~ Paul Gigot

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! ~ Jamie Zawinski

Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize. When it's done right, a governance structure by consensus naturally emerges, as happened both with Linux and Wikipedia. "What astonishes so many people is that the open source model actually works," Torvalds said. "People know who has been active and who they can trust, and it just happens. ~ Walter Isaacson

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board. ~ Linus Torvalds

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. ~ Linus Torvalds

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

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

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

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area. ~ Linus Torvalds

For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux. ~ Barton Gellman

Stephen and the others at the table broke the bread in the baskets before them, and one of the others then prayed about a broken vessel, a perfect sacrifice. Words Linux knew he should have understood, because Stephen had spent their last two sessions explaining what would happen during the communion service. How they followed a pattern that had been set in place at their last meal with the Messiah during the Passover feast, the night before he had been taken from them. Linux knew all these things, yet he was unprepared for what was happening. Not there at the front table, as next the wine was poured and blessed and shared. No, what was happening inside him. ~ Janette Oke

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

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

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

I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix. ~ Kenneth P. Thompson

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

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.

The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know. ~ Ryan C. Gordon

When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over
we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated
the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code. ~ Darl McBride

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. ~ Linus Torvalds

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

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

It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world. ~ Mikko Hypponen

Unix, BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Windows are Monozukuri. ~ Mehmet Kececi

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

I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it has been known to save the day with modern titles, too. But to have it as the agreed-upon way to how you play video games on Linux is completely unacceptable for several reasons, both technical and moral. ~ Ryan C. Gordon

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

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

Linux had paid little attention to the games themselves. The sport of blood had never held him. Linux had a warrior's scorn for gladiators and the maiming of man or beast as entertainment. But for Jacob, a young Judean lad with no concept of Roman games, it clearly had been a terrible shock. The boy's occasional shudder indicated the level of his distress. ~ Janette Oke

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

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

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

I was born in debian,
school in ubuntu,
worked with some distro,
and finally on slackware I go home. ~ Creatorbe

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

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump. ~ Miguel De Icaza

Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God. Linux helped ... ~ Janette Oke

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

In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist. ~ Neal Stephenson

The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for. ~ John Carmack

Installing kali linux but don't know about hacking is like getting married but have no idea what is sex. ~ Somoy Rahman

So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model. ~ Linus Torvalds

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

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. ~ Jamie Zawinski

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. ~ Nat Friedman

But you weren't born," I tell him. "I wrote an algorithm based on the Linux operating kernel. You're an open-source search engine married to a dialog bot and a video compiler. The program scrubs the Web and archives a person's images and videos and data - everything you say, you've said before." For ~ Adam Johnson

the only sign of where Stephen had been murdered was a dark stain among the rocks. He could see the followers carefully, sorrowfully, moving his body toward an open burial cave. Linux remained apart from those grieving by the cave's opening. His eyes were dry, yet his heart felt wrenched by tears only he could sense. Or perhaps not, for a pair of men approached, one of them the rugged apostle called Peter. "A tragic day, and a glorious day," the man said softly. ~ Janette Oke

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

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ~ Linus Torvalds

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

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

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak. ~ Tim O'Reilly

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging - to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it. ~ Jessica Livingston

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. ~ Linus Torvalds

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux. ~ Miguel De Icaza

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

Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel. ~ Robert Love

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

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

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. ~ Miguel De Icaza

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

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

Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it. ~ Brian Behlendorf

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

How long will the patch take?" Venkat asked. "Should be pretty much instant," Jack answered. "Watney entered the hack earlier today, and we confirmed it worked. We updated Pathfinder's OS without any problems. We sent the rover patch, which Pathfinder rebroadcast. Once Watney executes the patch and reboots the rover, we should get a connection." "Jesus, what a complicated process," Venkat said. "Try updating a Linux server sometime," Jack said. ~ Andy Weir

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. ~ 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

Linux doesn't have IP roots. ~ Darl McBride

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

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