Linux Quotes · Page 3

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Darl McBride

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of…

— Jamie Zawinski

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

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

— Timothee Besset

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Linus Torvalds

I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves…

— Linus Torvalds

I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it…

— Ryan C. Gordon

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they…

— Linus Torvalds

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As…

— Linus Torvalds

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux…

— Linus Torvalds

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to…

— Linus Torvalds

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even…

— Linus Torvalds

“Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that…

— Jessica Livingston

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

— Jamie Zawinski

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

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

— Ian Stewart

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

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

— Steve Ballmer

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not…

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Linus Torvalds

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would…

— Linus Torvalds

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Ryan C. Gordon

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

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

— Ken Thompson

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Barton Gellman

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

— Darl McBride

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different…

— Linus Torvalds

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year…

— Miguel de Icaza