Linux Quotes · Page 2

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

— Linus Torvalds

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

— Erik Naggum

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Bruce Perens

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

— Theo de Raadt

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— Linus Torvalds

“This is quite unlikely to happen to Linux,”

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Barton Gellman

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of…

— Linus Torvalds

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas.…

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Linus Torvalds

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…

— Linus Torvalds

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to…

— Nat Friedman

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Ken Thompson

Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of…

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Richard Stallman

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…

— Jamie Zawinski

The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious…

— Ryan C. Gordon

I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who…

— Nat Friedman

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component…

— Richard Stallman

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move…

— Bill Gates

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

— Richard Stallman

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

— Miguel de Icaza

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

— Timothee Besset

“Linux is awesome, Until you can afford a Mac”

— Chathura Sandeepa

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

— Dennis Ritchie

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what…

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Timothee Besset

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

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

— Dean Stockwell

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

— Ian Stewart

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we…

— Miguel de Icaza

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— 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