Linux Quotes:

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

source: Usenet message to Linus Torvalds, January 30, 1992.

topic: Linux, Performances

Linux is a leprosy; … This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

topic: Leprosy, Linux

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

- Bill Hayden

source: "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.

topic: Linux, Standards

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

- Darl McBride

topic: Lines, Today, Linux

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

- Darl McBride

source: "UPDATE: CRN Interview: SCO CEO Defends $1 Billion Lawsuit Against IBM". Interview with Paula Rooney, www.crn.com. April 24, 2003.

topic: Roots, Linux

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

- Darl McBride

source: "UPDATE: CRN Interview: SCO CEO Defends $1 Billion Lawsuit Against IBM". Interview with Paula Rooney, www.crn.com. April 24, 2003.

topic: Talking, Showing Up, Linux

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

- Darl McBride

topic: Taken, Secret, Linux, Ibm

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

- Darl McBride

source: "Geeks on Bikes: The SCO Group/Caldera Product Development Plan". www.linuxjournal.com. August 28, 2002.

topic: Heritage, Linux, Claims, Unix

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

- Dean Stockwell

topic: Trying, Linux, Graduates, Unix

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

- Dennis Ritchie

topic: Labs, Rooms, Linux

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

- Dennis Ritchie

topic: Years, Research, Linux, Unix

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

topic: Senior, Today, Linux, Open Source, Cadre

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

- Ingo Molnar

source: Linux Kernel mailing list, 1999.

topic: Years, Research, Linux

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

- Jamie Zawinski

source: Interview for themes.org, www.jwz.org. June 1998.

topic: Linux, Values, Software Development

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

topic: Thinking, Linux, Tools

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

- Jamie Zawinski

topic: Running, Use, Linux

We can build a better product than Linux,

- Jim Allchin

topic: Linux

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

- Kenneth P. Thompson

topic: 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

topic: Linux, Use, Care, Kernel

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

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Doe, Linux, Infinite, Loops, Kernel

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

topic: 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

topic: Linux, Unexpected, Refrigerators, Supercomputers, Unexpected Places

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

- Linus Torvalds

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Issues, Linux, Use, Commercialism

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

topic: People, Way, Linux

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

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Linux

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

- Nat Friedman

topic: Facts, Momentum, Linux

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

- Richard Stallman

topic: 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

topic: 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

source: "Ryan C. Gordon and Michael Simms (2. Ryan C. Gordon)". Interview with Robin Heggelund Hansen, www.tek.no. March 10, 2009.

topic: Games, Linux, Return, Return On Investment

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

- Steve Ballmer

source: "Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times". Interview with Dave Newbart, web.archive.org. June 1, 2001.

topic: Cancer, Intellectual, Linux, Intellectual Property

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

- Steve Wozniak

source: Letters-General Questions Answered, www.woz.org.

topic: 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

topic: Running, Quality, Linux

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

- Timothee Besset

source: "Good News, id Tech 5 Is Likely Coming To Linux" by Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. September 14, 2009.

topic: 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

source: "id Software and Linux – By TTimo". Linux Gaming News, linuxgamingnews.org. September 15, 2009.

topic: Quality, Matter, Linux, Code Quality

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

- Bruce Perens

topic: Vcr, Want, Linux

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

- Ian Stewart

source: Ian Stewart (2010). “Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities”, p.89, Profile Books

topic: People, World, Linux, Binary, Numerals

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

- Ken Thompson

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

topic: Views, Microsoft, Linux, Backlash

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

- Jaron Lanier

source: Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.126, Vintage

topic: Antiques, Linux, Copies

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.)

- Charles Stross

topic: Half, Linux, Firsts, Shoppers

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

- Linus Torvalds

source: "Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux" by David Needle, edition.cnn.com. October 1, 1998.

topic: Mean, Microsoft, Linux

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

source: "Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds". Q&A session with the audience at the panel at Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi, www.youtube.com. June 14, 2012.

topic: Taken, Linux, Annoying, Operating Systems, Desktop

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

- Linus Torvalds

source: "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

topic: Linux, Economy, Paid

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

source: Linux newsgroup post, July 05, 1996.

topic: Linux, Coders, Sneaky

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

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Positive, Effort, Linux, Positive Feedback

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

source: Source: www.osnews.com

topic: Worry, Linux, Operating Systems

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

- Linus Torvalds

source: "The Pragmatist of Free Software". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

topic: Worry, Linux, Economy

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

- Linus Torvalds

source: Source: www.linuxfocus.org

topic: People, Satisfaction, Linux, Personal Satisfaction

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

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Linux, Helsinki, University, Arrangements

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

- Linus Torvalds

source: "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

topic: Important, Linux, Customers, Developers

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

- Linus Torvalds

source: "Leader of the Free World" by Gary Rivlin, www.wired.com. November 01, 2003.

topic: Linux, Authority, Notion

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

source: "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.

topic: Competition, Would Be, Linux

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

source: Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

topic: Linux, Worried, Scene, Commercialization

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

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Linux, Looks, Hungry

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

source: "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

topic: Venture, Linux, Economy

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

- Linus Torvalds

source: "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

topic: Linux, Materialistic, Economy

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Zero, Way, Linux

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

- Linus Torvalds

source: "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

topic: Use, Pay, Linux, Binary

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

topic: Successful, Thinking, Linux, Good Manager

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

- Linus Torvalds

source: "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.

topic: Trying, Linux, Disaster

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

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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

topic: Leprosy, Linux, Statements