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Linux_quotes v0.1

Collected by: Marco Segato <segatom(at)yahoo(dot)it> aka Mach <tumin17(at)yahoo(dot)it>
Website: http://www.marcosegato.tk/

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Unix is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
In the 60s years you needed the power of two C64 at 1 Mhz to land on the moon. In the 2000s years you needed the power of a Pentium IV at 2 Ghz just to run slowly Windows XP. What went wrong???
"Plug and Pray": Plug your XP box to the Internet and pray the hackers don't find it.  --Slashdot
The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better', so I installed Linux.
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?  [email protected]
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
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
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 I 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.  [email protected]
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.  [email protected]
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.
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