"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU……" — Linus Torvalds
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
More Emacs Quotes
- No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs. — Richard Stallman
- EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which… — Richard Stallman
- I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs. — Unknown Author
- It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs… — Nat Friedman
- It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like… — Richard Stallman
- My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I… — Donald Knuth
- Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX. — Tom Christiansen
- People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free… — Richard Stallman
- I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. — Neal Stephenson