Linux Quotes - Page 3

• I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

  Linus Torvalds

  Goal, Competition, Trying

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

  Linus Torvalds

  Unexpected, Refrigerators, Enjoyment

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• What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

  Linus Torvalds

  Issues, Use, Packaging

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• 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

  Successful, Thinking, Facts

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• 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

  Writing, Different, World

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• Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Evil, Microsoft

  Linus Torvalds‏ @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.

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

  Darl McBride

  Heritage, Claims, Unix

  "Geeks on Bikes: The SCO Group/Caldera Product Development Plan". www.linuxjournal.com. August 28, 2002.

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• Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Use, Ease, Today

  "Mouthing off about linux". www.jwz.org. 2000.

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

  Kenneth P. Thompson

  Thinking, Movement, Software

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• While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Satisfaction, Needs

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  People, Bells, Maelstrom

  "Clearing Up Some Misconceptions". "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2", www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.

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

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Easier

  "How Microsoft conquered China" by David Kirkpatrick, archive.fortune.com. July 17, 2007.

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

  Timothee Besset

  Code Quality, Matter, Architecture

  "id Software and Linux – By TTimo". Linux Gaming News, linuxgamingnews.org. September 15, 2009.

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• One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Yes You Can, Numbers

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• I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

  Jef Raskin

  Confusion, Design, Mind

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• Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Thinking, Tree, Growing

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• Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

  Dean Stockwell

  Trying, Graduates, Hackers

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• IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

  Darl McBride

  Taken, Secret, Given

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• The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Games, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

  Linus Torvalds

  Nice, Technology, People

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

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Running, Worst Enemy, People

  "Interview The Sugar daddy for future generations". Interview With Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Worry, Together

  Source: www.osnews.com

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

  Linus Torvalds

  Worry, Operating Systems

  Source: www.osnews.com

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• I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

  Charles Stross

  Half, Firsts, Computer

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• 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

  Just Being, Geek, Computer

  "Mr Linux basks in the limelight". BBC World ClickOnline Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. October 5, 2002.

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