Linux Quotes - Page 5

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

  Dennis Ritchie

  Years, Research, Retarded

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• 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

  Safe Haven, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• 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

  Moving, People, Sun

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• Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

  Linus Torvalds

  Successful, Expectations, Challenges

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Answers

  Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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• 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

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.itworld.com

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• 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

  Important, Different, Development

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Thinking, Impact

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• 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

  Competition, Would Be, Made

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Heaven, Use, Mozilla

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• 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

  Trying, Three, Looks

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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

  People, Feel Good, Mind

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

  Linus Torvalds

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Moving, Winning, Simple

  "Chat with Ryan Gordon". Chrono's Pad, February 11, 2001.

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• 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

  Worried, Scene, Distribution

  Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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• I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Writing, Discipline, Effort

  Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.

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• OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

  Linus Torvalds

  Father, Real, Men

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• 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, Littles

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Race

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• 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, Forget

  Linux Kernel mailing list, 1999.

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• I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Past, Thinking

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Leprosy, Statements

  "Rebuttal to Ken Brown". www.cs.vu.nl. June 06, 2004.

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

  Ken Thompson

  Views, Microsoft, Backlash

  "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

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