"We will crush them" - Linus Torvalds, 1998
"Free as in free speech, not free beer" - Richard M. Stallman
"I would certainly =love= to not have to hate ISDN support." - Linus Torvalds '99 (Linus til ISDN-developerne
som ikke fatter noget)
"Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?" -- Linus Torvalds '99 (Linus til
ISDN-developerne som ikke fatter noget)
"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me
they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they
say if they had." - Linus Torvalds
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world
mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
"When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those
with the system, *for free*." - Linus Torvalds
"Microsoft operating systems are bad, and their morals are even worse..." - Linus Torvalds, 1996
"I could be bought, but Linux couldn't be." - Linus Torvalds, 1996
"The most important design issue...is that Linux is supposed to be fun..." - Linus Torvalds, 1995
"To error is human; to really f*ck up requires root." - ??
"The question isn't are you paranoid, but are you paranoid enough." - ??
"If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass
Boost and all the music is free." - ??
"There are no kernel hackers in Ireland. They spend all their time in the pub" - Alan Cox, 1998
"Find out what you've been missing while you've been rebooting Windows NT." - ??
"In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft
software and go unpunished?" - hasku@rost.abo.fi
"Apples have meant trouble since eden" - ??
"Windows without the X is like making love without a partner." - ??
"Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux" - ??
"Linux: the choice of a GNU generation"
"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it." - Linus Torvalds
"If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix
operating system." - Linus Torvalds
"World domination. Fast." - Linus Torvalds
"...and scantily clad females, of course.  Who cares if it's below zero outside." - Linus Torvalds
"...you might as well skip the Xmas celebration completely, and instead sit in front of your linux computer
playing with the all-new-and-improved linux kernel version." - Linus Torvalds
"Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night hacking (and/or conversations with God)."
- Matt Welsh
"...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." - Matt Welsh
"I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for
technical support which isn't."
"And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil
lies." - Linus Torvalds
"I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few months.  I just love debugging ;-)" - Linus
Torvalds
"I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.." - Linus Torvalds
"As usual, this being a 1.3.x release, I haven't even compiled this kernel yet.  So if it works, you should be
doubly impressed." - Linus Torvalds
"People disagree with me.  I just ignore them." - Linus Torvalds
"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children." - Linus Torvalds
"Oh, and this is another kernel in that great and venerable "BugFree(tm)" series of kernels.  So be not
afraid of bugs, but go out in the streets and deliver this message of joy to the masses." Linus Torvalds
"Seriously, the way I did this was by using a special /sbin/loader binary with debugging hooks that I made
("dd" is your friend: binary editors are for wimps)." - Linus Torvalds
"I tried to get some documentation out of Digital on this, but as far as I can tell even _they_ don't have it
;-)" - Linus Torvalds
"Ok, I'm just uploading the new version of the kernel, v1.3.33, also known as "the buggiest kernel
ever". - Linus Torvalds
"The new Linux anthem will be "He's an idiot, but he's ok", as performed by Monthy Python. You'd better
start practicing." - Linus Torvalds
"How do you power off this machine?" - Linus Torvalds, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using
the machine for several months.
"Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter _what_ the circumstances." - Linus Torvalds
"Whoa...I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio' and I think I heard God..."
"In short, at least give the penguin a fair viewing. If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I
simply know better than you do." - Linus Torvalds
"First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it.  Burn them, it's a great
symbolic gesture." - Linus Torvalds
"The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to it's feet in the deepest part of a very
deep lake." - Linus Torvalds
"I _like_ using goto's every once in a while:  it can often mess up the gcc optimizer just enough to get better
code out of it." - Linus Torvalds
"I guess it is one of the disadvantages of VLSI that it's no longer so feasible to add instructions to your
machines." - Richard M. Stallman
"So, if anybody wants to have hardware sent to them: don't call me, but instead write your own unix operating
system.  It has worked every time for me." - Linus Torvalds
"To boldly binary patch commercial programs where no commercial program has been binary patched before.." -
Linus Torvalds, on linux-kernel about patching Quake
"We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." - Linus Torvalds
"Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, white light. It's God. No, not Richard
Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM
FOR THE 386." - Matt Welsh
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." -
dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
"The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK'
first." - Arno Schaefer
"Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the
handbrake on." - ??
"Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste." - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
"Very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two noted exceptions: being struck by lightning,
or worse, your *computer* being struck by lightning." - Matt Welsh
"Linux *is* user-friendly.  It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly." - From usenet
"If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix
operating system." - Linus Torvalds
"The new Linux anthem will be 'He's an idiot, but he's OK', as performed by Monthy Python.  You'd better start
practicing." - Linus Torvalds (announcing another kernelpatch)
"Whoa ...  I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio' and I think I heard God ..." - MikeCD, #Linux
"I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody.  It doesn't generate revenue." - Dave '-ddt->` Taylor
(announcing DOOM for Linux)
"Feel free to contact me (flames about my english and the useless of this driver will be redirected to /dev/null,
oh no, it's full...)." - Michael Beck, describing the PC-speaker sound device.
"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." - From someones
.signature
"Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses" - MaDsen Wikholm
"Why use Windows, since there is a door?" - Andre Fachat
"And the next time you consider complaining that running Lucid Emacs 19.05 via NFS from a remote Linux machine in
Paraguay doesn't seem to get the background colors right, you'll know who to thank." - Matt Welsh
"I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of mice vs. trackballs...It was very
silly." - Matt Welsh
"..you could spend *all day* customizing the title bar.  Believe me.  I speak from experience." - Matt Welsh 
"I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for
technical support which isn't." - Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center
"Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of
minix." - Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum
"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are
not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)" - Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds
"Linux is obsolete" - Andrew Tanenbaum