Apps Quote by Jamie Zawinski

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

— Jamie Zawinski

Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI…

— Jamie Zawinski

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…

— Jamie Zawinski

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

— Ken Thompson

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…

— Miguel de Icaza

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

Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.

— Tom Christiansen

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

— Kenneth P. Thompson

At Imgur, we need a solid product that works on various platforms, so we're looking at iOS, Android, front end, back end, and devops.

— Alan Schaaf

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…

— Miguel de Icaza

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

— Andres Serrano